While Charles, more diplomatic as the steward of the business, avoids throwing partisan bombshells, David, who lives in New York City and whose main activities surround philanthropy and politics, is less shy.

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Such developments reflect, too, a generational change in Brazil's highly professional foreign service: older diplomats, who worked during the cold war and Brazil's 1964-85 dictatorship, are giving way to younger ones, who feel that the world's ninth-largest economy should be less shy of flexing its democratic muscles.

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Because the code has been licensed under the Eclipse public license rather than the harder-core GPL, device manufacturers will be able to continue to tack on custom features and hardware support without open-sourcing it, which should make them less gun-shy about throwing weight behind the platform -- and considering how badly these guys need to get back into the spotlight, that's a good thing.

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Jessica, who was less than a month shy of her eighth birthday, was trying to beat records set by other child pilots, including Daniel Shanklin, who was a few weeks older than Jessica when he piloted a plane from San Diego to Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.

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In fact studies suggest that the problem with French employees is less that they are work-shy, than that they are poorly managed.

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"Some people who have been shy or lonely or feel less attractive discover they can socialise more successfully and express themselves more freely online".

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Seth was shy, too, but less aloof.

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Earlier this week, CBS entertainment chief Nina Tassler wasn't shy about her delight over having one less competitor.

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Still others may just be less willing to take risks after suffering a huge loss, a sensible "once burned, twice shy" mentality.

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