For the time I wasn't smoking I felt awful, really unwell, but in that last week it began to pick up, almost a light at the end of the tunnel.

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But with future telescopes, scientists say it may be possible to see past the blinding glare of the parent star to pick out just the faint light passing through a small world's atmosphere or even reflected off its surface.

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It was, instead, one of those relationships where one party (him) had a very deep, very dark secret that he hid for years and that, when it exploded to light, was such a seismic shock to my system that it took years to pick through the charred emotional landscape and tentatively begin to rebuild anew.

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When the results were double-checked with a laboratory light microscope, the device had managed to pick up 70% of the samples with infections present - and 90% of the heavier infections.

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As they announced at the meeting in San Diego, the Sloan survey team was able to pick up such a density peak at a distance of 500m light years.

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The markets managed to pick up some momentum today, despite a mixed bag of economic data and light trading volume.

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The infra-red light from dust heated by a star has a much longer wavelength ie, is cooler than most of the light from the star itself, so a camera tuned to the right wavelength can pick out a dust disc without being totally blinded by the stellar glare.

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