Word: approaching
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...ability to see the souls of dead people, wasn't a conventional thriller. It was reserved and meticulous, making its surprise ending that much more electrifying. "Any story is more powerful if you can relate to it in your own life," says Shyamalan. "In The Sixth Sense my approach was, Don't light the hallways with blue scary lights. Nobody's hallway looks like that, so it's not going to affect people. Make it look like your hallway when the lights go down. Now put someone walking through it when they're not supposed to be there...
...self-titled album in 1997, Backstreet's music has always been a blend of cooing ballads designed for slow dancing at school proms, and springy anthems that bounce and tumble like beach balls on a hardwood floor. Black & Blue offers only a slight variation on that very successful approach: the beats aren't quite so rubbery and the melodies are a trifle more subtle than they've been on past Backstreet releases. But the core pattern is still the same: bring the fun on some tracks, bring the love on the others. Repeat...
Taking a different approach, Sibley's guide is more exhaustive and, at least to new birders, more daunting. Sibley relies on his own often exquisite paintings to illustrate his book, but he is of course aware that individual drawings can misrepresent their subjects. So he offers multiple images of each species. His page on the American robin, for example, presents four drawings of the bird in flight, two as seen from above and two as seen from below. Accompanying these are drawings of a juvenile robin, a regular adult, a "pale adult" and a slightly different form of the bird...
...Democrats last week called for a federal probe of the incident. Sources close to Democratic Miami-Dade mayor Alex Penelas tell TIME that a GOP intermediary, Miami political consultant Herman Echevarria - at the behest of state Republican leaders - tried to approach Penelas Wednesday morning to see if the mayor "might talk" to the canvassing board. The sources say Penelas preferred to stay out of it. (Dade elections supervisor David Leahy, a board member, also works for Penelas.) Both Echevarria and Florida GOP chairman Al Cardenas deny such contact. But Penelas, a Cuban American, is seen as vulnerable by GOP leaders...
...patent law approach is a one-size-fits-all approach. The question is, does it fit to the world of genetic research?" Breyer said...