They had made chewing motions with their mouths and produced blissful sounds, sometimes half opening eyes blind with sleep and then closing them again, stirring a little, and moaning because of the sweetness of their own existence.

NEWYORKER: Among Animals and Plants

It stuck with that outlook until August, projecting that economic growth would slow for a couple of quarters but not into recession, and then begin to grow again in the last half of the year and through next year.

FORBES: Roll Out The Bubbles, We'll Have A Barrel Of Fun (For A While)

Whoever wins the special election would serve the final year and a half of Kerry's term and would then be able to run again for a full six-year term in office in the 2014 midterm elections.

CNN: Source: Obama to tap Kerry to be next secretary of state

Then an hour and a half after that call, another one came to say the operation was cancelled again.

BBC: Northern Ireland

It took me an hour and a half to get up in the morning and then I was so tired I had to lie down again.

BBC: Organ donor series

We either go to straight line up at one-half point per trading day for the remainder of the year or we correct and then move up again.

FORBES: Get Ready For A Correction

Pompey fired out of the blocks in the second half, Defoe volleying a Milan Baros cross straight at keeper Craig Gordon and then forcing the Scot into action again with a 20-yard drive.

BBC: Portsmouth 1-0 Sunderland