Word: sleeked
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Sharks are one of nature's ultimate designs, tested over 400 million years--confident, sleek and lethal (see graphic). Studies show some sharks can measure changes in electric currents as tiny as five-billionths of a volt. They use this ability to hunt for prey hidden under the sand and to navigate according to the earth's magnetic field. "They are like some high-tech AWACS thing, with all their sensors," says Sean Van Sommeran, executive director of the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation in Santa Cruz, Calif. When they do attack a human, the weight of evidence now suggests, they...
Aaliyah tends to dress all in black--black dresses, black boots, black whatever. She will venture into other hues, but her fashions are almost always stylish and sleek. Let the Jessica Simpsons and Mandy Moores have the pastels and plaids. Says Aaliyah: "There's a dark side of me that comes out in everything I do." Even as she steps into the spotlight, she's got one leg in the shadows...
...real objection is to the obsessive way the news is pursued - through the activation of the mouth-frothing, feed-me, feed-me, 24-7 omnivore. Television news has become a sleek, conscienceless predator that works the family beaches and devours everything - high history, low scandal, license plates, dog bones, your private life if you are unlucky enough to fall into the maw. Who would want to be famous in this society...
...longest time, we have been told that George W. Bush is a different kind of leader. He runs the White House like a sleek business. The nerdy all-night debates in the Clinton West Wing Dormitory have ended. The adults are in charge now, we are told, and they are guided by simple, moderate principles that blend compassion with conservatism...
...names savor of medicinal witcheries and faery mythologies. Weeds are infinitely more interesting in their way than mere pampered uptown flowers, those sleek, over bred showdogs. You can boil the wild weeds, eat them, put them on wounds. Their names are surrounded by an atmosphere of gossip. What goes on between Pokeweed and Bluebead Lilly? The groundlings-or groundhogs- want to know. What conspiratorial dialogue is whispered between Blue Toad flax and Monkshood? What soliloquies from Trumpet Creeper, from Lady's Thumb, from the grizzled Salt-Marsh Fleabane...