They can be enlarged with a magnifying glass or on a touch screen.

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This can be a problem even in the best universities: students feel short-changed by professors fixated on crawling along the frontiers of knowledge with a magnifying glass.

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Academics have a habit of crawling along the frontiers of knowledge with a magnifying glass, blind to the wide vistas opening up before them, and often reducing the most engaging subjects to tedious debates about methodology.

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Still, there is a magnifying glass on the first case, one lawyer familiar with such litigation argued.

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Still, while there is a magnifying glass on the first case, one lawyer familiar with such litigation says, it is the first several cases, taken together, that could have a big impact on whether Merck eventually decides to settle--and winds up paying tens of billions of dollars to do so.

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Forensic science has a lot of romantic literature behind it, with many fictional detectives stalking the pages of whodunnits magnifying glass in hand and nicotine-source in mouth.

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