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...Kunming, Yunnan The neatly dressed husband and wife are in their 50s and comfortingly average looking. Their once-smooth dark skin is now veined and burnished to a proud sheen, reflecting the decades of hard work they have put into raising a family, earning their salaries and, now, battling...
...several other minor witnesses and, finally, her ex-boyfriend, the defendant. Saul told us that he had never hit his girlfriend (except for the time that there were witnesses) and that her testimony was made up because she had caught him sleeping with another woman. He was calm and smooth and made every effort to appear earnest, and I didn’t trust him for an instant. I didn’t much trust Ariane either—but I was sure she wasn’t making up her story...
...boyfriend’s family at a lovely Italian restaurant was like having emotional jet-lag. My life was now divided in two, one half normal and bourgeois, the other entirely invested in the drama unfolding in court: Ariane on one end, Saul on the other, along with the smooth-talking defense lawyer and the solemn district attorney...
RING WONDERS: Smooth or scalloped, groomed by moons, their complexity and internal dynamism is revealed...
Enceladus holds mysteries of its own. A bright white world with a relatively smooth face, it appears to have been repeatedly resurfaced by some kind of underground slurry or perhaps by ice volcanoes. In some places, once deep crevasses have been largely filled in and craters have been cut neatly in half, leaving one side deep and raw and the other covered, as if by snowdrifts. The area of the Saturnian ring that follows in the wake of Enceladus is slightly thicker than the rest, as if the moon were pumping out some kind of frozen exhaust, leaving a plume...