Word: thinly
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...trying to counter increased violence in the run-up to the Oct. 9 presidential election. Afghan President Hamid Karzai canceled a rally last week after a rocket was fired at his helicopter. The rocket missed, and his chopper flew back to Kabul. Nongovernmental organizations complain that NATO is too thin on the ground to provide security. "The NATO Secretary-General said the alliance was ready" for an Iraq mission, says a top French Defense Ministry official. "But between Kosovo and Afghanistan, we have plenty to do." Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer argues passionately for an alliance presence...
...hard for me to say because it is also a [person's] way of thinking that has elegance to it. I liked Samuel Beckett. [He had] a true elegance. I am really fond of music, and rock music in particular--Paul Weller [in] the Jam period, Bowie [in] the Thin White Duke period. But this is already somehow a "fashion" idea of style. Style has to do with lifestyle. It is a total idea, an almost religious idea...
...unveiled in May, delivering a ringing speech in support of John Kerry at the Democratic National Convention in July, signing copies of his book all over the world this summer--couldn't help noticing that he was full of energy and looking mighty svelte. The ex-President was thin--not just for the famously chubby Clinton--but thin by anyone's standard. How did he do it? He had been on the South Beach diet, he told friends, and was getting plenty of exercise. "I'm eating better and working out hard," he said...
...were drawn in growing numbers to walk-in clinics by aggressive TV and radio ads. In 2002, two years after Oprah Winfrey got scanned--and bubbled enthusiastically about the experience--32 million Americans shelled out as much as $1,000 apiece to get their bodies X-rayed in thin slices and reassembled into 3-D images detailed enough to show every blemish, scar and incipient tumor. The numbers are down slightly, owing to the economic downturn and, perhaps, repeated warnings that if you are relatively healthy, the scans will probably do you more harm than good...
...particles that break off from the mass as it approaches the sun. Over seven decades at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Whipple also discovered that the source of meteors is not far-flung stars but Earth's solar system. Anticipating space flight, he invented in 1946 a thin outer skin of metal known as a meteor bumper, or Whipple shield, to protect spacecraft from high-speed particles. The device is still in use today...