In our society, retirement, finances and investing have changed drastically, making it important to create some form of ritualistic passage that investors need to undergo to ensure they have the knowledge, skill, and determination required to adequately plan and prepare for their future.

FORBES: Investor Rites of Passage - Part 1

In the right circumstances these channels will allow the passage of sodium ions (the liquid to be investigated must have these added in the form of sodium chloride, or common salt, if they are not present naturally).

ECONOMIST: Medical diagnostics

We thus tend to infuse the passage of time with meaning and to see agency in it as well, whether it takes the form of God's supernatural agency in settling moral scores or nature knocking us off the pedestal of our technological hubris.

WSJ: May 21 and the Enduring Appeal of the Apocalypse