11.   Occasionally, an object appears at auction that fuels scholarship as much as it fires up collectors.

12.   One of the rules of perspective, which nearly everyone understands intuitively, is that distant objects only appear to be smaller than nearby objects.

13.   PLANET When people in ancient Greece studied the sky, they noticed that some heavenly objects appeared to move while others seemed to stay in place.

14.   Warm objects such as human bodies appeared bright on a black-and-white TV screen behind him, while cold objects such as soft drinks appeared dark.

15.   In some of the images, the object appeared to be a superimposed grenade.

16.   The arm-size object appeared to contain a timing device with wires and fuses protruding, a witness said.

17.   The arm-size object appeared to contain a timing device with wires and fuses protruding, he quoted her as saying.

18.   The objects appeared to have been underwater for years, government officials said.

19.   While SAS provides a clear image of the ocean bottom, buried objects often appear too fuzzy to determine what they are.

20.   Myopia causes distant objects to appear blurred and, due to genetic reasons, is prevalent among Chinese and Japanese, experts say.