Word: plainly
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...mind of most people Cinderella's pretty and the stepsisters are plain. The awful thing is that time and again conviction should have proven so weak in the face of biology. I, for one, look forward to radical genetic engineering. Perhaps some day science will teach us how to make human beings not necessarily more physically perfect but rather less concerned with physical perfection...
...tenor of media reports, which had for the most part been bullish on the war, suddenly began to shift, and Russians began invoking memories of the last war. "There's a palpable shift in attitude from the beginning of the campaign," says Meier. "They swept across the northern plain with the wind at their backs and were boasting of a quick and easy victory. But three months later, the bravado is gone, the high morale of the early weeks has proved to be rather shallow and, of course, the body count is rising...
...safety concerns have been raised about the Utah plant, which stands roughly 50 miles from Salt Lake City. "There's a long-standing argument between the government and people who work in the Tooele facility over how safe it is," says TIME Washington correspondent Mark Thompson. "And it's plain to everyone that although the amounts of sarin [a nerve gas] and other chemicals disgorged into the air are very low, they're not zero." The Army responded to Harris's claims with a promise of a complete investigation and a statement insisting they will "continue to provide maximum protection...