The MP4-18 also failed to complete a race distance at a private test in Barcelona.

BBC: McLaren target Silverstone

All-rounder Watson has come in for some criticism recently but provided the perfect riposte with an unbeaten 96 to leave him within touching distance of his first Test century.

BBC: Final wicket stand lifts West Indies against Australia

And Mr Prodi's apparent success in bringing Italy within shouting distance of the Maastricht test has numbed his right-wing opponents, most of whom approve of the government's euro ambition but have derided its efforts to achieve it.

ECONOMIST: Italy

Average walking distance on the six-minute test improved from 1, 508 feet to 1, 588 feet over the 30-day study period.

WSJ: A Virtual Coach Spurs Patients

In the fall of 2005, thousands of Forbes readers participated in an unusual experiment designed to test the limits of long distance communication.

FORBES: Opens The E-mail Time Capsule

After winning the Test series West Indies are within touching distance of doing the double over England.

BBC: England 'embarrassed' by collapse

By the end of the week, the prime minister's advisers were seeking to distance themselves from the idea of a new affluence test.

ECONOMIST: Welfare benefits

In 1935, Einstein, along with two young collaborators, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen, proposed an experiment that would test this idea by probing action-at-a-distance.

ECONOMIST: 100 years of Einstein

In the second test Pickens had to judge the length of lines and the relative distance between lines and dots.

FORBES: Inside T. Boone Pickens' Brain