• When he failed yet again to push someone over to the light side, he knew something was wrong.

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  • Economists would say the rising prices are like the check engine light coming on on the dashboard, and to lift the gas tax would just put a piece of black tape over the warning light.

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  • Goodwin immediately gave Fish the green light over the phone and pitched to RBS' board.

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  • Most unforgettably, my husband and I were given the master bedroom directly over the falls where light and sound rise from the water below.

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  • As the plane took off the 50-year-old pilot reported feeling a "slight bump" and thought the aircraft had run over a light on the runway.

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  • West Indies were ahead of the "par" score under the Duckworth-Lewis system when the 47th over began - and the umpires hovered over their light meters.

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  • Outside my hotel room window, a thin layer of clouds has stolen over the valley, diffusing the light and making it difficult to see where the sun really is.

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  • This new photogenic moment, released Thursday, comes courtesy of the European Space Agency's Planck space telescope, which detects cosmic microwave background radiation -- the light left over from the Big Bang.

    CNN: Better 'baby picture' of universe emerges

  • Google's tight rein over the gadget came to light today when one of the first would-be owners of the device abruptly halted an eBay auction because he feared reprisals from Google.

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  • It's quieter and you'll have more control over the amount of light surrounding you, particularly with your own window shade.

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  • Dr Lin is already testing a waveguide designed to steer light with a wavelength of 1.5 microns, and he is also working on three-dimensional waveguides made of silicon, which will provide almost total control over the path the light takes, and make really complex optical circuits possible.

    ECONOMIST: New-age crystals

  • When a GPS-equipped bus approaches an intersection, it can, as before, take over the intersection's traffic light, but the computer can also calculate its expected time of arrival and decide either to extend a green light or shorten a red light.

    FORBES: Greening the Traffic Lights

  • Labour are demanding answers over Mr Cruddas's claims, which were filmed by undercover Sunday Times reporters, came to light over the weekend.

    BBC: David Cameron publishes list of all donors dining at No 10

  • In a statement, Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup said the increase in force level would provide 11 Light Brigade with the resources they need to "sustain and build on the hard-won achievements of 19 Light Brigade over the summer - achievements of which the entire nation can and should be proud".

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  • The first time I saw her was on Mercer Street one evening as the light started to lean over the city.

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  • It was late in the afternoon, the sun just going down over the fields, the last of the light filtering through the trees and shrubs along the road by the old hospital.

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  • One company might own the fiber-optic cables, while another operates the light signals pulsing over that fiber, and a third owns (or more likely rents) the bandwidth encoded in that light.

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  • We are certainly beginning to challenge the notion of a classroom that was set up over 100 years ago in the light of an industrial revolution, that required vast numbers of people to be filled up with knowledge to be thrown into the workplace quickly, the smokestack school in more than one sense.

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  • The moon was rising over the mountains, aglow there opposite the lingering light of the setting sun.

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  • On the night itself, thousands of Thais from all over the country gather outside the royal palace to light candles and sing adoring songs.

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  • Dr McNaught said she expected more cases to come to light over the next few days, as several of the children seemed to have contracted measles during the last week of the school term.

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  • To observe such a distant, faint object, scientists had to collect light through the telescopes over 37 hours, letting more and more light accumulate to see as deep as possible.

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  • Last month the Commons Education Select Committee issued a damning report into the plans, which it described as a "red light" warning over the changes.

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  • Many who observe this holiday will light the Diya, or lamp, which symbolizes the triumph of light over darkness and knowledge over ignorance.

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  • If you doubt this, just listen to the never-ending GOP complaints over the dangers of mercury escaping from the compact florescent light (CFL) bulbs the government will soon require us to use in place of the highly inefficient incandescent bulbs.

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  • In Chapter restaurant, designed by Tokyo's Spin Studio, a winding iron staircase leads to a mezzanine of book-filled shelves. (It's mostly decorative, though select guests are invited to venture up there.) White perforated screens over the floor-to-ceiling windows filter the light.

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  • Tip to tip, the galaxy spans over 522, 000 light years, making it five times bigger than the Milky Way.

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  • Also on the undercard, Uganda's Kassim Ouma won the IBF light middleweight crown over Verno Phillips following a unanimous decision by the judges.

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  • But three wickets fell in six overs and after Prasanna Jayawardene was out in what proved to be the final over, Sri Lanka accepted the offer of bad light.

    BBC: Bangladesh restrict Sri Lankans

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