The band's liberal mixing of musical metaphors seems to have long passed the experimental stage, and now sounds as if it were already the most natural thing in the world.

NPR: Fight The Big Bull: Rumpus In Richmond

Bolt, 23, has already won the 100m and 200m in world record times and now turns his focus to the 4x100m relay.

BBC: Bolt switches focus to relay gold

The brand already has proven a lot and now stands as a permanent fixture in the world of Swiss watchmaking, particularly with the chronograph models that is its specialty.

FORBES: Montblanc Earns Its Place Among Swiss Watchmakers

Launched in 1990 to promote diversity in the immigrant population, the green-card lottery is now open to people from almost anywhere in the world, except countries that already boast a large number of nationals in the U.S., including Mexico, China, India and the Philippines.

WSJ: U.S. Green-Card Lottery Scrutinized After Blunder

The world has already discovered Russia and now, it seems, that Russia in the process of discovering itself.

FORBES: Russia's High Tech Promise

Already the world's biggest babysitter, ABC is now the number two player in the U.S., second only to Knowledge Universe Education, cofounded by former junk-bond king Michael Milken and his brother, Lowell.

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There are now some glimmers of optimism in the investment-banking world, where trading books have already been marked down ferociously and credit exposures to the real economy are more limited.

ECONOMIST: Rebuilding the banks

The practical implications of these discoveries are many, with some already playing out in the world of medicine, where an estimated half of all pharmaceuticals are now understood to work through this class of receptors.

WHITEHOUSE: Two American Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry