Word: sightedly
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...exhibit you are immediately drawn to a pile of what appears to be large hunks of turf, haphazardly dumped in the center of the room. As it turns out, these are actually chunks of chocolate, popcorn and caramel, there to be eaten. For some reason it is a disconcerting sight to see tweedy patrons bending down and nibbling at a sculpture...
...know what set them off? Actually I think it was probably the British journalist. It's merely the sight of a Western face. They're here to fight a jihad; they see a Western face; they assume that's who they've come...
...humanitarian crisis in Northern Afghanistan, I have been begged by fathers to take their children, angrily led by the hand by a husband to see his wife lying unconscious from malnutrition, and, again and again, asked to explain why the aid isn't coming. On Monday the mere sight of my health reduced a 75-year-old man to tears. My translator and I have found we can only stay for an hour or so in a refugee camp before the crowd becomes hysterical with need. In every visit, there comes a point when it becomes too dangerous to stay...
...trying to ingratiate myself with any bearded man who pops through the iron gate of the Quetta consulate of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, I'd about given up hope of entering the last remaining Taliban strongholds. Then, last Monday, the Taliban started issuing visas to every reporter in sight. TIME magazine was right up there with Mexican TV and Swedish radio...
...gladly have given up some of my precious freedom if it could have saved the lives of those thousands of people murdered on Sept. 11. If our thoughts are concentrated on what freedoms we might have to give up to stop terrorism, then I think we have truly lost sight of the most valuable thing: life itself. MONICA GRAYBILL Port Royal...