But after that, he expects seasonal forces and federal-budget politicking to send stocks into a characteristic second- and third-quarter correction.

WSJ: Watch for a Post-St. Patrick's Day Selloff

But as the first stars condensed out of the newly formed atoms, the heat and light they produced would have started to tickle the hydrogen clouds around them into emitting radio signals at a characteristic wavelength of 21cm.

ECONOMIST: Radio telescopes

Another aspect of this is the American characteristic of our individualism that is unarguably knitted together into a social fabric of cooperation.

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The group is also looking into medical applications: the laser might, for example, help to detect in a patient's breath molecules characteristic of ulcer formation.

ECONOMIST: Lasers

The unique packaging of all these features and capabilities into the ITV makes for a vehicle that duplicates -- and in some cases actually exceeds -- virtually every performance characteristic of the military HMMWV ("Humvee").

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