The foreboding sheen of an extra large date.

And this one is evolved to mimic a glossy metallic surface you see on some beetles.

This is the letter SHeen, and it makes the sound we think of as SH sh.

RG When we lowered the glossy parenting magazine that we were looking at, with these beautiful images, and looked at the scene in our actual living room, it looked a little bit more like this.

The problem for the Medieval Spanish scholars who were tasked with translating this material is that the letter SHeen and the word shalan can't be rendered into Spanish because Spanish doesn't have that SH, that sh sound.

After recent events in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, Wall Street analysts are waxing somewhat less optimistically about political stability in emerging countries. And a flat 2011 performance in some Latin American and Asian equity markets following tremendous runs in 2010 has taken a bit of sheen off the emerging market investment fad.

In becoming the poster girl for a re branded continuation of the Bush administration, Palin is showing herself to have much in common with glossy faux populists like Eva Peron or Denmark s anti immigrant leader Pia Kjærsgaard. What we should learn for next time and for every time to come is that great leaders and great dreams are being overlooked in the women who prepare our food, process our Internet orders, and wipe up the spills in our hospitals.