In turn, sovereign weakness made the banks appear riskier, and the banks and their home governments became joined at the hip.

Those days now seem like another age.

Waving to the onlookers, she looked like Snow White.

It makes a two dimensional image look more three dimensional.

Some of the new policies seem exemplary.

Today, his writing is seen as buttressing the state, not individual freedom.

Once a conflict is over, aid agencies seem paralyzed.

In that case, however, the Boston bombings appear to present a paradox.

The atoms appear as a glowing sphere about 1 millimeter in diameter.

And yet China seems to turn a blind eye to it all.

Thus, external forces do not appear to pose much of a threat.

Belarus seems beyond redemption, but appearances are deceptive.

(NASA in particular has been constrained by years of political infighting and patronage in the US Congress, to the point where its mission seems to be employment maintenance rather space exploration.)

This is just the outline of it, and you can see, does it look like a regular building? No.

Indeed, China now looks like it can play the role of growth anchor.

Such rescues, in short, appear to help big companies with bad managers.

Resources are too few. The UN itself appears too divided to make the vital difference.

In an environment as deadly as this, the details and symbolism of a possible settlement are bound to loom very large.

In most countries, such charges would seem like paranoid delusions.

The fact that it's a child's toy that we all recognize, but also it looks like it's a robot, and it comes from a sci fi genus.

What is more, the human rights instruments never appear as a bloc or a coherent whole, but rather as random items on a shopping list .

Or this fangtooth. The particles in the water make it look like it's floating in outer space.

When the watchers have only commercial motives, such spam feels like a minor violation.

But, seen from today s perspective, Kennedy s presidency seems like a high point of American prestige.

When it comes to Pakistan, too, India seems to lack confidence.

Democracies such as India may seem at times to move too slowly and be prone to paralysis.

Now it looks more like a country heading towards authoritarianism at home and embracing adventurism abroad.

So NATO expansion has left the Cold War unfinished.

When the sun is visible in the polar sky, it appears to move in a horizontal circle above the horizon.

This changed the appearance of the fortress, making it appear more of a fortified house than a fortress.

So you'll notice that many of the symbols look like pictures of humans, of insects, of fishes, of birds.

France, by contrast, does not appear to have noticed the writing on the wall.

The bad news is that Asia seems to be learning little from repeated external demand shocks.

If it stays put, the next crisis will make this one look like a walk in the park.

This is why banks suddenly look so unexpectedly profitable.

By contrast, today s official Russian ideology seems to be focused squarely on the past.

Surprisingly, the bond market still seems almost oblivious to this risk.

Tel Aviv, who voted Livni and Left of her, should finally be able to stand up to Jerusalem, who voted Netanyahu and Right of him. This election may sound a wake up call to the moderates, and Livni is their tested leader.

Worse yet, her surgeries seem designed to make her resemble the actress Angelina Jolie.

In Turkey, even if you have a university degree, finding a good job is like a fantasy.

Boyle said, I wanted a guy who didn't look like a potential hero I wanted him to earn that in the film.

Other claimants backdated post invasion documents to make them appear to have been created pre invasion.

And the job of the C is to make the B sad. And it does, doesn't it?

And so, it is not until age seven that we get what looks more like an adult response.

Indeed, the current budget war seems to be reopening old divisions about America s view of itself and the world.