Word: headlights
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Taking to Vrioni, I felt like a cow caught on the railroad tracks at night, staring straight into the headlight of an unstoppable train: her eyes are dark and intense, and she never looks away. "I come from a noble family," she says, and she looks like it: high cheekbones, face titled up, smooth white skin with the translucence of a da Vinci portrait...
...battle lines are clearly drawn. Directly in front of the border protesters, counter-demonstrators, most of them Hispanic, hold up mirrors and black plastic banners to block the lights. Aida Mancillas, a university language professor who is protesting the headlight rally, believes uneasiness about the economy and San Diego's expanding minority population fuels the demonstrations. The percentage of whites in San Diego County is expected to decline during the '90s from its current 74% to 60%, while that of Hispanics will rise from 14% to 23%. "Borders are breaking down everywhere, and it's frightening," says Mancillas. "There...
...course, my classes were a little different from the average Harvard lecture. One, independent research, consisted of donning a miner's headlight, boots and a notebook and traipsing off into the rainforest at night hunting for the ubiquitous cane toads...
...human eye, the animals so often seem mirages: now you see them, now you don't. Later, just after dusk, Abyssinian nightjars discover the magic wash of the headlight beams. The birds flit in and out of the barrels of light, like dolphins frisking before a boat's prow. The Land Cruiser jostles, in four-wheel drive, across black volcanic stones toward the camp, the driver steering by the distant light-speck of the cooking fire...
Reporter-Researcher Anne Hopkins says that her own image of robots has changed dramatically. "I started out with the misconception that they were things with bunking headlight eyes," says Hopkins...