The trial started in a secure basement courtroom equipped with bullet-proof glass separating the defendants from the three judges who will hear the case, and more bullet-proof glass separating the public from the court.

CNN: 30 accused over Madrid 'bomb plot'

Our guts are growing, and scientists are on the case, looking for a magic bullet that will make you thin.

FORBES: Connect

The bullet's velocity was stopped by an eyeglass case and a thick manuscript, for a speech which Roosevelt characteristically insisted on giving before going to the hospital.

CNN: What we in 2012 can learn from Teddy Roosevelt in 1912

In each case the progress is steady and customers are biting the bullet.

FORBES: Oracle Transformed - It's Now All about the Cloud

In the shinkansen case, large slabs of concrete peeled off tunnel walls and slammed into the passenger compartments of passing bullet-trains.

ECONOMIST: The land of disappointments