Kindle Paperwhite's screen has 25% higher contrast - the blacks are blacker, and the whites are whiter.

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The more brown a worm is, the milder the winter, while a blacker worm predicts a harsh season.

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"She doesn't have to be Secretary of Defense to be happy, " Blacker says.

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To gain attention, headlines had to be ever bigger, blacker and more terse.

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Kindle Paperwhite's screen has 25% higher contrast than the previous generation Kindle- the blacks are blacker, and the whites are whiter.

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In Mort Sahl and Lenny Bruce, American comedy offered examples of a wilder, blacker vein than people in Britain were used to.

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The gorgeous scenery around the silvery lake, alpine yet not in a welcoming way, makes all the pools of psychic pain seem even blacker.

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The technology has an unprecedented ability to absorb external light reflections through an increased wedge depth, which leads to "blacker" blacks, more-realistic pictures and higher color contrast.

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But Robert Bullard, who heads the Environmental Justice Resource Centre at Clark Atlanta University, sees the shipment of waste from one county to a poorer, blacker one as part of a longstanding pattern that sees minority communities disproportionately burdened with hazards.

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