• Anything that smelled of another blockbuster drug vanishing into thin air might have hurt the company's stock.

    FORBES: Should Bayer Cut Prices To Protect A Patent?

  • Mr. WALI: (Through translator) They vanished into thin air because no one makes any money from our organization.

    NPR: Blind Man Aids Some Displaced Iraqis

  • "It's as though they disappeared into thin air in broad daylight, " she said.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Sharply angled steel-and-glass enclosures for stairs and elevators recall early Russian constructivist designs like Tatlin's elaborate unbuilt platforms rising precariously into thin air.

    WSJ: New Guggenheim: Art and Architecture as One | By Ada Louise Huxtable

  • Only that once parted from them in unexpected circumstances they seem to vanish into thin air, no matter how many calls I make.

    ECONOMIST: Business travel

  • Maybe this means the Vix will evaporate into thin air now.

    FORBES: Take Heart Bulls - the Bear Fund Launches are Accelerating

  • There was a great deal of smoke and explosions and he vanished into thin air, with his back pack, with his boots, with his rifle.

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  • At the end, it all seems to dissolve into thin air.

    NPR: Opera Beyond Words: Rameau's Radiant Dances

  • Even as Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, which was headed from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, seems to have vanished into thin air, two people listed on the flight manifest remain safe.

    BBC: How safe is your passport?

  • The Twin Towers, sadly, vanished into thin air, but was an untimely office building play by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to sop up excess capital.

    FORBES: Master Class For Occupy Wall Street

  • Then there is the worry that if remote servers crash or are compromised, data, ranging from family photos to financial records from a Fortune 500 company, could simply vanish into thin air, forever.

    CNN: How safe is cloud computing?

  • The chilam smokers have vanished into thin air.

    NPR: 'The Swallows of Kabul' Book Excerpt

  • Krakauer, a bestselling author himself (Into the Wild, Into Thin Air) alleges that Mortenson simply made up huge swaths of the narrative of Three Cups of Tea, including fabricating his kidnapping by Taliban rebels and a meeting with the King of Afghanistan.

    FORBES: Greg Mortenson: The Jayson Blair of Philanthropy?

  • Just on the level of sheer spectacle -- and these are movies we're talking about, spectacle is no small matter -- a flick like "Jack the Giant Slayer" has a lot going for it: a perilous daylong climb into the clouds, a castle in the sky worthy of Hayao Miyazaki, waterfalls that drain into thin air and the delightful sight of a 100-foot chef sneezing into his pastries.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Talk of multi-billion-dollar projects four years ago it was an arms deal with Syria, last year it was huge investments in Iraq tend to dissolve into thin desert air.

    ECONOMIST: Russia and the Middle East

  • The major averages kept rising into nose bleed thin air, but the Ag names were struggling to stand upright.

    FORBES: POT Is Going Up In SMOKE

  • Dive into the crowd at MacWorld gathered around Apple's latest product, the MacBook Air, and they'll quickly point out what could be the wafer-thin machines biggest flaw: Users can't swap in fresh batteries. (See: " Into Thin (MacBook) Air") That could be a deal-breaker for road warriors looking for a lightweight notebook.

    FORBES: What Bugs Apple Fans

  • Ambitious finger-tip passing opened up space for Barry Davies, but Williams' pass off the floor ended up drifting harmlessly into touch, leaving Bowe grasping at thin air and the Blues' line intact.

    BBC: Blues 20-12 Ospreys

  • After a low-key start, Didier Drogba rolled the ball into an empty net after David James kicked at thin air.

    BBC: Portsmouth 0-5 Chelsea

  • For a console that had developed a troublingly thin release schedule just months into its lifespan, this is a breath of fresh air.

    FORBES: Zelda Coming to the Wii U

  • The air is so thin that the first glimmer of sun can throw it into violent convection, lofting up into towering thermals, twisting into dust devils, and collapsing back down as they cool.

    NEWYORKER: The Martian Chroniclers

  • The intervening weeks will be spent in a manoeuvre called aerobraking, which involves using the air-resistance of the thin Martian atmosphere to change the elliptical initial orbit into a circular one from which the planet's surface can be examined in detail.

    ECONOMIST: Mars Odyssey

  • Digging deeper into the lie that is quantitative easing, history reveals that the act of creating dollar credit out of thin air is tantamount to dollar devaluation.

    FORBES: No, The Bernanke Fed Has Not Ignited a Stock-Market Rally

  • This new standard didn't appear out of thin air, but is part of a liberal critique of welfare reform that has made its way into the Administration.

    WSJ: Review & Outlook: Welfare Reform as We Knew It

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