• The version of "The Scream" on the block Wednesday was one of four -- two pastels and two paintings -- executed between 1893 and 1910, Sotheby's said, and is one of the best-known images in modern art.

    CNN: 'The Scream' sold for nearly $120 million

  • At any moment, a barrage of emails, messages, must-read articles, chart submissions, etc. could upset my otherwise productive day, which was already unreasonably dissected into fifteen minute increments to account for my wide variety of responsibilities and interests, while still leaving that one magical four hour block of time in the afternoon untouched.

    FORBES: Why Benjamin Franklin Was More Productive Than I Am

  • Some have filed a lawsuit to block the planned demolition of four major housing projects in the city.

    NPR: New Orleans' Controversial Public Housing Model

  • The city has agreed to turn a 10-block stretch of Broadway into a four-day party to mark Super Bowl XLVIII, which will be played in 2014 at MetLife Stadium in the nearby Meadowlands.

    WSJ: City Prepares For a Chilly Super Bowl

  • Or maybe we should just start running a four-hour block of commercials with little snippets of football in between.

    FORBES: Thoughts on Football and the Super Bowl

  • Arlene went blind as an adult, and what she showed me was how much of the block she still sees, four decades after becoming blind.

    CNN: 'On Looking': The world you're not seeing

  • Nortex Communications, based in Muenster, Texas, acquired the Texas RSA 6-Jack 700 MHz lower B-block license, which covers a four-county area northwest of Dallas.

    ENGADGET: Verizon wraps up 700MHz spectrum sales to three rural telecom firms

  • Four of the five drugs approved for Alzheimer's block an enzyme that breaks down acetylcholine, indirectly increasing levels of this neurotransmitter.

    FORBES: The Nicotine Cure

  • These three mild suburban guys strike it rich only after Rock assumes the identity of a jailed racketeer and dubs his group CB4 (for Cell Block Four).

    NEWYORKER: CB4

  • So the "Seagram" sculpture stands one block north of its namesake, cleverly commenting on the modernist building that houses the celebrated Four Seasons restaurant.

    WSJ: Public Arts Projects Twist the City's Skyline

  • Ten years ago, her seventy-four-year-old father, Jack Block, a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, was admitted to a San Francisco hospital with symptoms from what proved to be a mass growing in the spinal cord of his neck.

    NEWYORKER: Letting Go

  • While the four network broadcasters sue to block new technologies, they are missing the bigger picture of the changing media landscape.

    FORBES: Broadcasters: Start Embracing (and Stop Suing) Innovation

  • Last year saw queues around the block as the sale prepared to open, with one woman at the head of the queue spending four days camping to ensure she got her hands on her favourite postcard.

    BBC: Top artists in secret postcard sale

  • All the tournament's teams are staying at University of Surrey's sports halls of residence at their sports park in Guildford and we've divided up our block into four families with six or seven team members to each floor.

    BBC: Catrina Nicholas column

  • Too often over the past four years, a single Senator or a handful of Senators has been able to unilaterally block or delay bipartisan legislation for the sole purpose of making a political point.

    WHITEHOUSE: Statement by the President

  • The inquest into the deaths of six people in a tower block fire in south-east London has entered its fifth week with another four weeks to go.

    BBC: Lakanal House fire: The questions yet to be answered

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