Word: thousands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...musings about Mars. The craft flew past the planet at a distance of only 9,800 kilometers, transmitting 22 television pictures of a bleak, moonlike landscape pockmarked by craters and showing no signs of life. Even so, hope persisted. To demonstrate that a Mariner flyby at a distance of thousands of miles might completely overlook a thriving civilization, a young and still unknown Carl Sagan that same year sifted through a thousand pictures of Earth shot by a weather satellite orbiting only 480 kilometers up. In a paper entitled Is There Life on Earth? he reported that only one photograph...
Farmer is an impossibly busy man: an influential medical fundraiser, a sharp critic of U.S. policy towards the developing world and a practicing physician with his feet in what seems like a thousand clinics at once. He splits his time between regular rounds at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the free medical complex he founded in Cange, a rural settlement in the most impoverished part of Haiti...
...away from the prying eyes of his new college classmates inside the Athlon Sports College Football Preview. Soon enough, however, Mazza’s new Varsity Football teammates would come to find out what Mazza had planned for no one at Harvard to know. Mazza, a wide receiver from Thousand Oaks, Calif., who lives in Canaday and may concentrate in Economics, is also a male model. As his teammates found out when they flipped open the football magazine and found Mazza’s hidden portfolio pictures, his rugged good looks are featured in advertising campaigns for Champion Sporting Goods...
Hubbard and other senior American diplomats have requested that South Korea send a light infantry unit of several thousand troops to assist with peacekeeping operations in Iraq...
Although the groups handed out about a thousand fliers for Dean’s Tuesday speech, few passersby actually stopped to watch the Dean video...