When Mr. Blagojevich arrived at the federal courthouse here on Tuesday to hear the verdict in his high-profile case, he looked as dapper as ever, wearing a crisp, dark blue tie with a light blue pattern.

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He stood a few inches over five feet, mostly bald with some white hair on the sides of his head, sporting a mustache, and wearing a light blue shirt and dark blue shorts.

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Koppel wore a light blue shirt, dark suit and tie before the bright lights at Discovery Headquarters in Silver Spring, Md.

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The orange line plots earnings, the dark blue line shows the historical normal PE ratio applied by the market, and the light blue shaded area reflect dividends paid out of earnings.

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Light blue indicates 2011, green shows 2007, light green shows 2006, and dark gray shows the 1979 to 2000 average.

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Blue leather booths line the walls covered with Al Hirschfeld drawings, underneath dark wood molding contrasted with a modern splash of blue light at the ceiling's edge.

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Russian speakers, who make an extra distinction between light and dark blues in their language, are better able to visually discriminate shades of blue.

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He was wearing a light-coloured hat with a dark band, Burberry-type scarf, green jacket, blue jeans and white trainers.

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In two of the trials, the box was dark for 12 minutes and then illuminated for 48 minutes with either long-wavelength red light or short-wavelength blue light directed at the subjects' corneas. (Light color is determined by its wavelength.) The box was dark in a control experiment.

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