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Whether a speck of dust is man-made or natural can be worked out from its trajectory.
ECONOMIST: Orbital debris
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Although this is a small sample, it suggests that man-made dust particles predominate over naturally occurring ones.
ECONOMIST: Orbital debris
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Residents carried the injured into ambulances and one man carried a small child caked white with dust from the wreckage.
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From excrement to gold dust, he weighs up the various manifestations of what man thought was small before he had the microscope.
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So most dust now in orbit around earth can be assumed to be man-made.
ECONOMIST: Orbital debris
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As one man, they laid down their shields in the dust, then their pila, then their swords.
FORBES: Fact and Comment
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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.
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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.
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