Relatively few users are thought to be suffering from the clash between IE and the security patches.

BBC: NEWS | Technology | Hackers target latest Windows fix

These are known generically as inorganic nanotubes, reflecting the distinction in chemists' minds between organic (ie, carbon-based) molecules, and all the others.

ECONOMIST: Nanotechnology: Pipe dreams | The

Churchill told de Gaulle in 1944 that, faced with a choice between the continent and le grand large (ie, the transatlantic relationship), the British would always choose the second.

ECONOMIST: Britain and Europe

In age there is nothing between them: Mr Hague's bunch average 50 (ie, 14 years older than its leader), Mr Blair's 49 (which was then eight years older than the leader).

ECONOMIST: Shadow cabinet

The bloggers (ie, creators) are one another's audience, so that distinctions between the two disappear.

ECONOMIST: Blogging is just another word for having conversations

As a result, between now and 2050 the number of men in China aged 20 to 25 (ie, of prime military recruiting age) will halve.

ECONOMIST: The digressions of people power