One by one the volumes were handed over, 62 in all, to a grateful and marvelling Stern.

ECONOMIST: Konrad Kujau

The unmistakable cheery jingles are also popular with locals who have been marvelling at such business ventures.

BBC: Libyans�� new love affair with ice cream

He sits at his desk, marvelling at the knowledge that he can go home early, and then he does.

NEWYORKER: The TV

After marvelling at your digs, step on the free hotel shuttle to historic Main Street, less than a mile from the hotel.

BBC: Daily deal: Precious panoramas in Park City

For the rest of us - marvelling at the heaviest vehicle ever to lift off the ground - it was nothing short of magic.

BBC: The magic of Apollo

Denton once chided his boyhood friend David Galbraith for marvelling to a reporter that at the age of thirteen Nick was already reading The Economist.

NEWYORKER: Search and Destroy

We spent our first day at the Grand Canyon with hundreds of other families along its southern rim, marvelling that the little brown trickle at the bottom has carved out such an elemental void.

BBC: Missing pieces in Utah

After marvelling at the grace of, say, a white pelican gliding after a school of fish, he would take aim with his hunting rifle, using fine shot so that the bird was not blown to pieces in the process.

ECONOMIST: John James Audubon

Having barely scraped into parliament, with 13% of the vote, its members are still marvelling that they made it into government and landed some of the plum jobs, including the much-coveted interior ministry, the privatisation board and the treasury.

ECONOMIST: Turkey