The candidates for dark matter come in two basic sorts: largish chunks, or darting, sub-atomic particles in unimaginable abundance.

ECONOMIST: The dark side of cosmology

Most biotech drugs are largish protein molecules that have to be injected because otherwise they would be destroyed by stomach acids.

FORBES: Brains Over Guts

Both deals were hustled forward by the creation of Banca Intesa last year when Cariplo and Banco Ambrosiano Veneto, two largish northern banks, joined forces.

ECONOMIST: Italian banking

There was a largish family saloon (the Fluence), a supermini-sized hatchback (the Zoe), the Kangoo Be Bop ZE and a wacky two-seat urban runabout (the Twizy).

ECONOMIST: Renault's electric-car gamble

Should China seek conquest in oil-rich Siberia or central Asia, the consequence could be nothing worse than a largish version of the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.

ECONOMIST: Quid pro quo

Also sadly, nobody's saying nothing about ATI's Hollywood graphics chip that's coming to the system, either out of ignorance or NDA-ance, but the general feel is that the system should thrown down about triple the graphics of the GameCube, but won't really be the same league as the energy loving 360 or the largish PS3.

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