That ad certainly captures the urgency with which I, and millions of others, keep a staring eye on a laptop or iPhone.

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For a moment I focus on the glass and catch the faint, honest reflection of my eye staring back at me, a lock of gray straggly hair in its way.

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It lay on its side, staring with one eye straight at Ginny, drifting alone in its disappearing sea, the sun burning both of them, beaming through the torn shreds of the shredded atmosphere.

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As long as these budget deficits are staring taxpayers in the eye, unions are putting themselves in a difficult situation by thinking they will not have to give something back.

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Of course (and now this is becoming a familiar tune), avoiding all eye contact to keep from staring is also a bad tactic.

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Michigan is staring down the nation's most efficient defense with an evil eye of its own: the country's most potent offense.

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And using the human eye to control a display that you're already staring at anyway does seem to have some merits.

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