• In both cases what look at first sight to be damaging symptoms caused by an infection are actually adaptive (though unpleasant) responses to it.

    ECONOMIST: Fatigue: Killing time | The

  • At first sight, its returns look unexciting: just 6% annually, despite lots of risk.

    ECONOMIST: Are the poor a good investment?

  • But at first sight, it does not look like there are any similarities.

    BBC: Second woman dies on French night train

  • And our meal at 21212 deserves every spike of its sparkler - it's a humorous and clever romp without losing sight of deliciousness: plates look like elaborate puzzles, ingredients deliver snort-making surprises like parchment made from mushrooms, or smoked salmon with fingernail-sized buttered crumpets, all in a room that looks like Shrek's pulling parlour.

    BBC: Postcard from Edinburgh

  • From a French fur trader with an iron hand to the Army Corps of Engineers reshaping the riverbed, Indian casinos built on brownfields to 280, 000 radioactive mice buried at the Falls, many of Niagara's stories are like the drums secreted in its landfills: shoved out of sight, covered over to look presentable, and driven by with glazed eyes, a quick flick of the radio volume.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Inventing Niagara'

  • At first sight, the proposed spending curbs also look credible, at least compared with last year's plans, which crammed enormous cuts in discretionary domestic spending into the years after 2002.

    ECONOMIST: 2002, a fiscal odyssey

  • "If we can re-assure people and clearly see the end in sight, then I think we can look forward to visitors coming back, but it is not an easy task, " said Mr German.

    BBC: News Online

  • At first sight, the results from the euro area do not look encouraging, moreover.

    ECONOMIST: Do not expect a miracle

  • With the central-bank governor's wings clipped and ABN Amro's success in sight, they ought to feel emboldened to take another look at Italy's fragmented banking sector.

    ECONOMIST: Dutch courage pays off | The

  • For many very common words in English such as "come", "once", "was", "the", the best method for accuracy is to read them as "sight" words - that is, using the strategy of look and say.

    BBC: Viewpoints: Teaching children to read

  • The engines were cut and with the precision of a surgical team, the crew manoeuvred the 71m vessel slowly and safely just near the bear, who, intrigued by the sight of the boat, walked over to take a closer look.

    BBC: Life in the fragile, frozen Arctic

  • It's palm-sized with a single blue LED light indicating a connection, but honestly you don't ever need to look at it: it doesn't need line-of-sight to your handset because it uses a wireless protocol called WiFi Display, which means you can happily leave it dangling out of the way behind your TV.

    ENGADGET: AllShare Cast wireless streaming dongle for Samsung Galaxy S III -- hands-on (video)

  • The sight of him standing there with his sleeves pushed up and his cloth over his shoulder and his look of readiness all this made me smile, and the smile that came back to me seemed to stream out of the glass and into my arms, my chest, my face, my blood.

    NEWYORKER: Miracle Polish

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