• The last thing you want when you're planning to visit the loo, and one in a novel setting with different skill levels, is the pressure of knowing people are waiting on the other side of the door, wanting to know how it went.

    WSJ: In the Driver's Seat

  • MicroChips' titanium-encased device is about the size of a pager and has a novel flat antenna on one side that can transmit and receive radio signals from several feet outside the body.

    FORBES: Health

  • Soon Carla Devade and Marc Devade will be together, and she will shout, and he will shout, and she will go to the bedroom and pick up a novel, any one of the many that are lying on her bedside table, and he will sit at his desk and try to write but fail.

    NEWYORKER: Labyrinth

  • The intertwining plots and narrative elements of the original novel, including extracts from a book written by one of the characters and a second story about pirates within the story, meant deciding what to include and exclude would be a complicated exercise.

    CNN: Filming the unfilmable: Zack Snyder on 'Watchmen'

  • And nobody has ever wanted to write a novel and settled for making their story into comics: for one thing, it just takes too damn long to draw something when you could write it instead.

    NPR: More Recommendations

  • The stories in the second part of the novel pose a challenge to the book: they break the novel into two movements, one adagio and one allegro.

    NEWYORKER: Passed By

  • And we'll have one last opening line from a prospective novel, this one sent by Joe(ph) from Stockton, California.

    NPR: Could You Be the Great American Novelist?

  • But while Lloyd Webber's hi-tech take seemed to prove the optimum format for the story, it is just one of numerous retellings, all deriving from a 1910 novel by French journalist and author Gaston Leroux.

    BBC: NEWS | Entertainment | The Phantom's rich heritage

  • The UCLA engineers have created a novel concept for harvesting and recycling energy for electronic devices - one that involves equipping these devices' LCD screens with built-in photovoltaic polarizers, allowing them to convert ambient light, sunlight and their own backlight into electricity.

    ENGADGET: Photovoltaic polarizers could make self-charging smartphone dreams come true

  • Nonetheless, by coming up with a novel improvisation, ice cream carts became a stopover tradition, one that everyone enjoyed and looked forward to.

    FORBES: Improvisation -- a Different Way of Solving Business Problems Yields Big Rewards

  • In his new, New York Times best-selling novel entitled One Second After, historian and author Bill Forstchen describes the devastating effect such a strike could have on America.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Missile defense misjudgment

  • And one of the inefficiencies of our capital markets is that a company that is growing fast due to novel value creation can sell its shares to the public.

    FORBES: Clutch Your Wallet: Steve Case Made $96 Million on ZipCar Deal

  • We have a real estate tycoon who still thinks he can be president, and New York remains a great place to write a first novel, get discovered in a one-act play, or play guitar outside in your underpants.

    WSJ: Jason Gay: What Linsanity Says About New York

  • For one thing, its novel approach is fostering a proper debate among development experts about the role of market forces and accountability.

    ECONOMIST: Face value

  • But worthiness is a quality that has to be earned, and can be lost, for one of the fund's novel features is the regular assessment of its projects by outside consultants.

    ECONOMIST: Twenty-five years of AIDS

  • Its disruptive technology is a novel air-breathing and rocket engine that would enable the ship to go to space in one leap.

    BBC: Skylon: Ending 40 years of hurt

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