At dawn, he could see that but for the roadside oaks everything was gone, burned off the face of the earth as if by a powerful beam of light, the house standing naked and singed in a field of white ash.

NEWYORKER: Idols

We refuse to believe they honestly find these men attractive--after all, the men they're marrying are usually decades older and long past their looks-good-in-the-light-naked expiration date.

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It is 128 light years from Earth, and is just visible to the naked eye in the constellation of Pegasus.

ECONOMIST: Planets are seen outside the Solar System