Word: thinning
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...what Pentagon officials call "a thin line of defense" that's equal parts James Bond and Rube Goldberg. There are 11 interceptors ready to launch from silos in Alaska and California, cued to their targets by arrays of satellites and shipboard sensors all linked through a Colorado command center. The Pentagon wants 48 interceptors by 2011, including 10 in Europe - the Czech Republic and Poland are likely sites - oriented toward any threat from Iran. While the system generally isn't on full alert - meaning ready to fire its interceptors - Pentagon officials said last week the system had been cranked...
...polling stations reporting after Sunday's balloting, fewer than 400,000 votes (about 1% of the total) separate the leader, Felipe Calder?n of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), and Andr?s Manuel L?pez Obrador of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD). Federal election authorities call that margin too thin to announce a winner before a more detailed count can be completed - but both Calder?n and L?pez Obrador wasted no time last night declaring victory. "We won the election without a doubt," Calder?n told his supporters near midnight, while L?pez Obrador went so far as to assure backers that his camp...
...tourists packing every airport, piazza and esplanade? Then take heart, for there is an alternative to overbooked hotels and long amusement-park queues. It's called low season. The weatherman may not be able to promise perfection, but low season is the time of year when the crowds are thin, the experience is purely local and the price is right. Forget Paris in the springtime, and check out these off-peak havens instead...
...fall in it. The night after Martin graced the show with his presence, the audience filed out after the final number - "All You Need Is Love," with four large screens displaying photo and film collages of the actual Fab Four - but one man seemed rooted to his seat. A thin fellow of about 60, with long gray hair that pony-tailed down his back, he held his head in his hands, his shoulders lurching as he sobbed softly. Such is the power of the Beatles' music, their impact, their legacy. And such is the intensity of retrieved memory...
...What makes breasts beautiful is malleable - which is to say, today's molded soft cup might not seem as attractive as a tissue-thin barely-there webbing in ten years. Like all other aspects of femininity, breasts are subject to the pressures of marketing and fashion and culture in addition to underwires and lace. Styles change but insecurity remains constant? we are willing to believe we're wearing the wrong bra size because, surely, something must be wrong...