Word: wides
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...terrified. He was a foreigner in France; any serious trouble with the law could get him deported. And this could have gotten serious, because the accusation was true. Four years earlier, he had bought from Pieret two of the pilfered sculptures, Roman-era Iberian heads whose thick features and wide eyes he would introduce into the great painting he was then just about to embark upon, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Though he would deny it in court, he almost certainly knew at the time that both heads were lifted from the Louvre. He may even have pushed Pieret to take...
...last February's Super Bowl, Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald and Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu were the brightest stars on a glittering stage. Fitzgerald capped a stellar season by shredding the Pittsburgh defense for two touchdowns, while Polamalu keyed the Steelers' 27-23 victory with a series of bone-crushing tackles. Now the two are once again sharing the spotlight. On April 24, EA Sports announced the long-haired pair would share the cover of Madden NFL 2010, the newest iteration of one of the world's most successful video-game franchises. It's an honor that...
...Last month, the news was filled with headlines about a large asteroid which might hit the Earth in 2036. Apophis, as it is called, is 390 meters wide. If it strikes the planet, it would release more than 100,000 times the energy than that of the nuclear blast over Hiroshima. The asteroid was a big story, but buried deep in the press reports about it was the fact that the odds of a collision are 1 in 5,500 based on current information...
...apparent emergence in several countries of an entirely new strain of H1N1 flu virus has led some scientists to believe that it is only a matter of time before the WHO declares pandemic status, a move that could prompt travel bans to infected countries. "We are clearly seeing wide spread," says Michael Osterholm, a pandemic risk expert who runs the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. "There is no question." (See a photogallery on swine flu hitting Mexico...
...Georgia Brandishing Sticks, Throwing Carrots More than 60,000 protesters converged on Tbilisi on April 9, calling for President Mikheil Saakashvili to resign over his mishandling of last year's conflict with Russia. The demonstrators, representing a wide range of opposition parties, criticized Saakashvili's lavish lifestyle and his defeat in the war over the breakaway region of South Ossetia. Some threw carrots and cabbage at the presidential residence, released a live rabbit (to represent, they said, his rabbitlike cowardice against Russia) and mocked him in political theater performances. But after a week, the number of protesters had dwindled...