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Puss , who seemed in a great measure recovered from her illness , now made a hearty meal of the dead bird , and then went to sleep with much apparent satisfaction . This radiance , so apparent in the tropics , and which cannot be mistaken for any meteoric lustre , extends from the horizon obliquely upwards , and follows generally the direction of the sun 's equator . Nor was there even mention of the fact that most civilized countries – a community in which the United States claims leadership – have banned the death penalty , even for men who have committed hateful and vile crimes . Less dramatic but still challenging in the longer run , China has continued its rise as an economic and military power . In the first few degrees of this its progress , its surface is very sensibly flattened , farther on depressed into a plane , and finally , becoming [ page 36 :] not a little concave , it terminates , at the Pole itself , in a circular centre , sharply defined , whose apparent diameter subtended at the balloon an angle of about sixty-five seconds , and whose dusky hue , varying in intensity , was , at all times darker than any other spot upon the visible hemisphere , and occasionally deepened into the most abso-lute blackness . Was I not justifiable in supposing , with M. Valz , that this apparent condensation of volume has its origin in the compression of the same ethereal medium I have spoken of before , and which is dense in proportion to its vicinity to the sun ? On the other hand , I was not aware that , in any recorded ascension , a diminution had been proved to be apparent in the absolute rate of ascent ; although such should have been the case , if on account of nothing else , on account of the escape of gas through balloons ill-constructed , and varnished with no better material than the ordinary varnish . Nothing can kill growth more effectively than an uncompetitive currency , and there is no faster route to currency appreciation than a surge in capital inflows . The lenticular-shaped phenomenon , also , called the zodiacal light , was a matter worthy of attention .