• Housing benefit is paid to meet the housing bills of poorer people who are out of work, and withdrawn on a sliding scale as people's incomes rise in work.

    ECONOMIST: Welfare reform

  • "There are more features people want in the game, and there's no way we could scale enough people fast enough, " OMGPOP CEO Dan Porter told Mashable shortly after the acquisition.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • When you see how much he created it's on a scale of what people shoot digitally.

    BBC: The photographic legacy of Garry Winogrand

  • Clinton admitted that the deepening impact of the financial meltdown, which is dominating the agenda at this year's meeting in Davos, had left many people frightened -- but said the global scale of the crisis proved that the world's nations could no longer afford to turn their backs on one another.

    CNN: Turkish PM slams Israel over Gaza campaign

  • And a few managers of rich people's money whisper that they are beginning to scale back their hedge-fund allocations.

    ECONOMIST: Hedge funds

  • China's 1.3 billion people and unmatched economies of scale can bring new technologies to market fast -- in "China time" -- at a speed that is virtually impossible anywhere else in the world.

    CNN: Coal-burning CEO: U.S., China must fight pollution

  • "Alta Moda, " an exhibition that opens Saturday in Lima before heading to the U.S., includes 27 large-scale photographs showcasing people from Cusco, Peru, in native costume and dress.

    WSJ: 20 Odd Questions: Mario Testino

  • And he's asked people not to go there now because of the potential for large-scale clashes.

    NPR: The Mood in Najaf, Shiite Stronghold

  • Few people imagined a catastrophe on such a scale, but we now see it's possible and we are suffering the consequences.

    CNN: What if carbon dioxide were as black as oil?

  • When we first visited during last year's campaign, Forrest told us her business was struggling because the recession had convinced people to scale back on hair braiding and other personal luxuries.

    CNN: King: Obama fever still runs hot at St. Louis store

  • "If you look at the first wave of the Internet as being about content, and the second generation being the interaction of people-to-people connections ... just now we're getting to the point where there's scale, " Sze says.

    FORBES: MetaData

  • More than one million people, it says, will be supplied this summer with water from Britain's first large-scale desalination plant in east London.

    BBC: UK

  • The unique ability of technology to enable today's limited educational resources to scale quickly and affordably across great distances to a great many people makes it an essential ingredient in our efforts to transform education.

    FORBES: Bill Gates

  • Along to Cromarty, 25 miles north-east of Inverness, I met Kirsty Pryer, one of six people who work for Calico, an internet service provider on a small scale but one that's hardly noticed the downturn.

    BBC: 'Crofting' vital to rural economy

  • Unlike the Balkans, however, Indonesia contains 220m people, and is far and away the world's largest Muslim country: this would be chaos on an epic scale.

    ECONOMIST: Indonesia

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