Meanwhile, decades of experiments in "phage therapy" — the use of phages in lieu of antibiotics to control infections — took place in Tbilisi, Georgia, behind the Iron Curtain and out of Western scientific sight, and were then more or less neglected when the Cold War came to an end.
Have people in the western world lost sight of that kind of threat?
But here in western Missouri, the sight of those familiar speckled wings against the September sky means something altogether different: hunting season has arrived.
In June, the Netanyahu government repudiated a carefully worked-out agreement that had promised Reform and Conservative Jews, including women rabbis, a place of worship at the Western Wall, within sight of Orthodox devotions.
There were few Western foreigners in sight.
On a weekday in the heart of London, I was the only Western woman in sight.
People greeted me politely, obviously recognizing me as a Westerner, a rare sight in Tehran these days.
Now, at the Oxford-based British Helsinki Human Rights Group BHHRGG), some veterans of that struggle are playing a rather different role: noisily defending a grim lot of east European politicians against the imperialism of western do-gooders.At first sight it seems baffling.
He composed the "1914" sonnets in October, during the evacuation of the Belgian fortified city of Antwerp — a bloodless action by the later standards of the Western Front, although the sight of columns of refugees fleeing the city shook him.
Maybe it's simply part of the wider fashion for excusing the actions of the Castro regime, hand in hand with the incongruous sight of western liberals wearing T-shirts of the racist and murderer Che Guevara.
LAKE HABBANIYA, Iraq — A few hours outside Baghdad in the middle of Iraq's vast western desert is a sight that could understandably be mistaken for a mirage: a long, sandy beach filled with thousands of people swimming and dancing barefoot under the hot sun without apparent care.
