• Whether a speck of dust is man-made or natural can be worked out from its trajectory.

    ECONOMIST: Orbital debris

  • Although this is a small sample, it suggests that man-made dust particles predominate over naturally occurring ones.

    ECONOMIST: Orbital debris

  • His predecessor, John Browne, was in many ways a remarkable chief executive, a man who sprinkled pixie dust onto the company's black gold while also boosting its market capitalisation ninefold.

    ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

  • At the same time, the experiment's clever design makes it possible to distinguish between man-made and naturally occurring dust particles, and so determine their relative proportions.

    ECONOMIST: Orbital debris

  • It left me suspended in a bad joke in which a living man inexplicably becomes two pints of dust and everyone acts as if this were not a joke at all but, rather, the most reasonable thing in the world.

    NEWYORKER: Dead Man Laughing

  • And the first man to leave footprints in the lunar dust, Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong -- aside from geologist Schmitt, the only other civilian in the collection of moonwalkers -- later sat on several corporate boards and the presidential commission that investigated the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster.

    CNN: After walking on moon, astronauts trod various paths

  • Residents carried the injured into ambulances and one man carried a small child caked white with dust from the wreckage.

    WSJ: Mumbai Building Collapse Kills at Least 35

  • From excrement to gold dust, he weighs up the various manifestations of what man thought was small before he had the microscope.

    ECONOMIST: Small things often hold big secrets

  • So most dust now in orbit around earth can be assumed to be man-made.

    ECONOMIST: Orbital debris

  • As one man, they laid down their shields in the dust, then their pila, then their swords.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • If Tim Tebow were to be sprinkled with magic Lombardi dust and simultaneously possessed by the spirits of Johnny Unitas, Otto Graham and Popeye the Sailor-Man, he would be lucky to be one-quarter as good as Peyton Manning at his best.

    WSJ: Sympathy for Tim Tebow as Denver Woos Peyton Manning: Jason Gay

  • Which without me, what's his name, who hits so good, is certainly a man who's sure his bats are made of wood could be when summer beats a team to dust.

    NPR: Baseball, Apple Pie and Steroids

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