• Cotswold District Council said it had been dealing with objections about colour and size raised by some residents whose homes were near or overlooked the play area.

    BBC: The fenced off playground

  • In the pre-Best days no one cared about the colour of a player's eyes.

    ECONOMIST: George Best

  • These females did not seem to care about the colour of their suitors' legs.

    ECONOMIST: Female spiders are picky lovers

  • As it happens, Italy cannot afford to be too choosy about the colour of its future workforce.

    ECONOMIST: The world comes to Italy

  • Cadbury said it was "not seeking to be precious about the colour purple" but was protecting its trademark from other chocolate firms.

    BBC: Quiz of the week's news

  • Cotswold District Council said it had received a small number of objections about the colour and size, raised by some residents whose homes were near or overlooked the play area, but said the scheme was the developer's responsibility.

    BBC: The playground when it was fenced off

  • Mr Ball, a physicist by training, notes simply that the problem is there, and passes quickly to what scientists can tell us about the generation of colour.

    ECONOMIST: Science and history of colour

  • Mr Penny jokes about the scarcity of colour photocopiers.

    ECONOMIST: London's National Gallery

  • True, too, Arab governments should not let their frustration about the peace process colour their attitude towards Mr Hussein, whose potential for mischief still threatens them as much as, maybe more than, anyone.

    ECONOMIST: America the unmighty

  • He told BBC News that the journal article described everything needed to establish the test in a forensic lab, but that the team was also in touch with industry regarding their knowledge about hair and eye colour prediction.

    BBC: Forensic test can predict hair and eye colour from DNA

  • Flavour is crucial, but I spend as much time thinking about texture, shape, colour and form.

    BBC: Stockholm��s enduring style

  • His poem about her, The Lavender Colour of Blueberry Flowers was popular with soldiers, civilians and schoolchildren.

    BBC: How war inspires the world's poets

  • Since 1976, Paul Kay of the University of California, Berkeley, another of the paper's authors, has compiled a database of information about how 110 different languages assign colour adjectives to 330 different hues.

    ECONOMIST: Psychology

  • The hope this analysis brings, though, is that there is nothing particularly special about biologically based brands such as skin colour.

    ECONOMIST: Darwinism

  • Inside No 10 they joke that the annual scare story about scrapping the Red Arrows or the Trooping of the Colour will surely follow soon.

    BBC: Is the defence budget safe from more cuts?

  • At this stage, however, using the protein that way could turn reading into a truly electrifying experience: a charge of about 4, 000 volts is needed to trigger the colour change.

    ECONOMIST: Showing off

  • Goethe's restless curiosity led him to develop theories about everything from the structure of bones to the properties of colour.

    ECONOMIST: Goethe

  • Such lawsuits are strengthened if the brand-name drug company files a new patent covering, say, the colour of the pill bottle just before the main patent is about to expire.

    ECONOMIST: Prescription drugs

  • And although I have come here in search of the red plenty of the soil and its produce, I realise that the journey has led me also to the green that Juan talked about: the herbs inside this bottle have given the liquid the exact mossy-yellow colour of the pine forests and vineyards that surround us.

    BBC: The three colours of Ibiza

  • The three grammes of copper in the 1 rupee coin (we are talking about the older style, the Jinnah on one side, Badshahi Masjid on the other, a brown colour, not the newer silvery looking coin) therefore has a refined value of 2.64 US cents.

    FORBES: The Pakistani 1 Rupee Coin Is Worth More Than 1 Rs

  • Mr Ball next treats us to a brisk description of the human eye (remember rods and cones from school biology?), an explanation of why Newton was right and Goethe wrong about the composite character of white light, and an account of the 19th-century regimentation of the continuous colour spectrum by means of colour wheels and other classifying devices.

    ECONOMIST: Science and history of colour

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