• For more than 90 days until they were picked up, they were blown about the Pacific, enduring the torments of thirst, hunger and hallucination, drinking their own urine and finally succumbing to cannibalism.

    ECONOMIST: The cannibalism of the sea

  • He said easterly winds had probably blown her about 3, 000 miles (4, 800km) off course before she landed in Essex.

    BBC: 'Rare' desert wheatear 'accidentally' migrates to Essex

  • However, this would turn to full blown TB in about 10% of people.

    BBC: Sunshine vitamin 'may help treat tuberculosis'

  • His venture, Bigelow Aerospace , is using technology originally developed by NASA to develop inflatable habitats, each one of which could be shipped into space, blown up to about the size of a three-bedroom house and connected to a structure such as the International Space Station.

    FORBES: The New Space Race

  • Is it just due to the pixie dust being puffed out by Wall Street and the Fed, about to be blown away by the gathering storm others see coming.

    FORBES: Consumers And Investors Blissfully Ignorant Of Economic Reality

  • He told soldiers not to beat other detainees, but the panel ruled he should have blown the whistle to senior officers about what went on.

    BBC: Dr Derek Keilloh

  • The only fresh thing about it is the snow-blown local color.

    NEWYORKER: Grumpy Old Men

  • Three years ago, the sub-prime mortgage crisis was about to burst into a full-blown economic disaster for the United States.

    FORBES: Reform of Fannie and Freddie: This Time It's Serious

  • The suspect, identified by state police as Kurt Meyers, also is believed to have blown up his house in the area, located about 70 miles west-northwest of Albany, according to a federal law enforcement source briefed on the investigation.

    CNN: Four killed in upstate New York shootings, police say

  • The flooring is dark, the passageways plain and the lighting democratic, giving shards of earthenware as much attention as finely woven rugs from Iran, a jewel-encrusted dagger from Mughal India or 14th-century enameled blown-glass lamps from Egypt and Syria that are about as close to numinous as objects can get.

    WSJ: Islamic Art at the Louvre | By Lee Lawrence

  • Asked about injuries, he said he had been "blown up", shot in the back and had broken most of the bones in one side of his body.

    BBC: April Jones trial: Mark Bridger 'did not think to ring 999'

  • In the first half, WALL-E, a robotic trash collector and compactor, continues to go about his duties after the human presence has been blown away from Earth by billowing waves of noxious dust.

    NEWYORKER: WALL-E

  • "Ron Greeley was a valued colleague and friend, and this scene, with its beautiful wind-blown drifts and dunes, captures much of what Ron loved about Mars, " said Steve Squyres of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.

    MSN: A stunning close-up of Mars taken by visiting NASA rover

  • But he came in for criticism after 11 September 2001, when he said the attacks on New York were "blown out of proportion" and people should be more worried about the plights of whales and elephants.

    BBC: Blue star on drink-drive charge

  • So perhaps Jason Chimera, a native of Edmonton who has been with the Capitals only since 2009, could be forgiven for his response when asked Thursday about the collective public angst over the team's latest blown lead in the playoffs.

    WSJ: History not on Caps' side for Game 5 vs. Rangers

  • First, the region's economies face yet another slowdown, even if the worries about Argentina's debts do not develop into a full-blown emerging-market panic.

    ECONOMIST: Can democracy flourish amid economic woe?

  • The current HMS Campbeltown, which is about to be decommissioned, bears the name of a vessel deliberately blown up in an attempt to destroy a dry dock in occupied France in 1942.

    BBC: HMS Campbeltown

  • Short of a full-blown acquisition rumor that proves true, as private equity speculation goes, these are as about as good as they get.

    FORBES: The Power of Private Equity Speculation

  • We already had an inkling about the 7260 a few weeks back, and while we weren't exactly blown away at the time, at least this thing makes sense in the context of the rest of the series.

    ENGADGET: Nokia busts it out: the 7280, the 7270, and the 7260

  • The widow of Rich Gabrielle, whom witnesses said was trapped under marble blown off the wall in the lobby of the 78th floor, told the Times the tape eased her fears about her husband's death.

    CNN: Report: Tape sheds light on WTC rescuers

  • Or how about this: The military has a runway deep in enemy territory that it wants to keep from getting blown up, so it changes the color of the landing turf to brown to blend in with the surrounding desert.

    FORBES: Field of Screens

  • But I think that dismissing the YouTube livestream achievement as trivial is like the joke about the talking dog that was criticized for not enunciating properly: the real point is that YouTube has blown post being merely a repository for archived video and is now a prominent force in live, real-time national news coverage.

    FORBES: Twitter and YouTube Are Blowout Winners in Presidential Debate

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