• But a rumor of a bug in a device that Motorola knows isn't ready for consumers -- and has no material effect on any official launch date -- simply doesn't matter.

    ENGADGET: Editorial: bugs on unreleased phones don't matter (update: Motorola says phones will 'ship as scheduled')

  • There didn't appear to be any hazardous-material crews, and no neighbors were evacuated.

    NPR: Attorney: Miss. Man Denies Mailing Ricin To Obama

  • The "silent mutations" - changes in genetic material - are likely to have no obvious impact on older fathers' own children, but they may build up through subsequent generations, or interact with other genes and environmental factors, to increase the chance of their grandchildren developing the condition, the researchers say.

    BBC: Grandparents 'may relay autism risk to grandchildren'

  • His baseball cap was of the same material, a plain-billed dome with no inscription.

    NEWYORKER: Idols

  • A. wrongly accused of being a double agent and held for three years in total isolation (no reading material, no news, no human contact except with interrogators) in a closet-size concrete cell near Williamsburg, Virginia, made chess sets from threads and a calendar from lint (only to have them discovered and swept away).

    NEWYORKER: Hellhole

  • Mr Ariely and his students will have no shortage of material for follow-up books.

    ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

  • Nanotech also allows for "green manufacturing"--manufacturing processes that can take place at ordinary temperatures, reducing energy costs, while the use of non-toxic catalysts minimize pollution and bottom-up construction leaves no wasted material behind.

    FORBES: Nanotech Vs. The Green Gang

  • Both the iMac and Mac mini include PVC-free components and cables, contain no brominated flame retardants, and use highly recyclable materials and material-efficient packaging designs.

    ENGADGET: Apple unveils next-generation iMac with slimmer design and Ivy Bridge, starting at $1,299

  • At the time scientists inside and outside the EPA unanimously agreed that the test posed negligible risk. (I wrote the analysis submitted by the Food and Drug Administration.) No new genetic material had been added--only a single gene whose function was well known had been removed--and the organism was obviously harmless.

    FORBES: Commentary

  • The Edinburgh-based business said it knew of "no material reason" for a fall of more than 10% on Friday morning.

    BBC: Online dating firm Cupid reacts to share price fall

  • Bubble Wrap first had to take on balled-up newspaper, no easy sell because that packing material was essentially free.

    FORBES: Wrap Star

  • Yet the West still chases slavishly after ever-higher gross domestic product, a purely material measure that takes no account of the blessings of nature or leisure.

    ECONOMIST: Two new books probe the limits of capitalism

  • Based upon the actions taken and our testing and evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal controls, we have concluded the material weakness related to controls over the period-end financial reporting process no longer existed as of December 31, 2010.

    FORBES: Numbers At General Motors Just Don't Add Up

  • No one knows whether this stuff is investment-grade material.

    FORBES: The Art of Grunge

  • "I think people love the source material because no character is sacred, no character is safe, and anyone -- even the most beloved and innocent people in the comic -- could be killed at any moment, " said Blair Butler, comic book expert for G4's "Attack of the Show" -- and one of many fans of the book's creator, Robert Kirkman.

    CNN: Can 'The Walking Dead' scare up viewers?

  • The "Cr-48" refers to an isotope of the material chromium, there's no logo and no design frills on the laptop itself, and it only comes in black.

    ENGADGET: Google unveils Cr-48, the first Chrome OS laptop

  • "In this day and age, no one should be allowed to possess nuclear-weapons-usable material without providing an armed defense of that material, " said Edwin Lyman, a nuclear physicist with the Union of Concerned Scientists.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Take Sharp, which since 2000 has led the world in solar panels sold (it dropped to No. 2 last year in the midst of a silicon raw-material shortage).

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The dramatic development of the material pushes beyond simplicities, and the portrait of Zuckerberg is many-sided and endlessly ambiguous (no two viewers will see him quite the same way).

    NEWYORKER: The Social Network

  • Speculators plug the gap when the hedging requirements of raw-material producers and buyers do not coincide, offering a counterparty for trades that might otherwise have no takers.

    ECONOMIST: Commodity speculators do more good than harm

  • Ironically, today's most fashionable battery material, lithium, is the third-lightest element in that table and therefore one for which no such relativistic effects can be expected.

    ECONOMIST: Einstein and car batteries

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