• Nat Fraser allegedly removed her teeth, jewellery and other personal effects which might identify her before scattering the remains somewhere in Scotland.

    BBC: Arlene murder trial charges

  • After eyeing our open-topped jeep, he made a nervous split-second decision to pounce, scattering the prey below, and vanished into the thick camouflage-scrub of the riverbank.

    BBC: On the hunt with Hemingway

  • In his spare time he trained his instincts by field-stripping old watches, scattering the pieces, and teaching himself to put them back together like a jigsaw puzzle.

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  • Sao Paulo (CNN) -- A Brazilian woman has confessed to shooting her husband, dismembering him and scattering the parts in a wooded area outside Sao Paulo, police said on Wednesday.

    CNN: Police: Brazilian woman kills, dismembers husband

  • The scattering changed the momentum of the electrons in a way that depends on their original orbital position.

    ECONOMIST: Small-scale physics

  • Usually the scattering of energy is considered a nuisance -- whether driving in fog or poor reception from a cell phone tower -- and most techniques either try to avoid it (by turning on fog lights) or reduce the impact of scattering (by selecting energy for the phone only from direct paths).

    CNN: A camera that can see around corners

  • Some of the scattering particles return to the camera at different times.

    CNN: A camera that can see around corners

  • It is, but the amount of work pales to almost insignificance when compared to the alternative: rushing around like the Wicked Witch of the East, scattering signals to the wind, and wondering why houses keep dropping onto our heads.

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  • According to polls, economic pessimism has sent voters scattering across the political spectrum.

    BBC: News, The Netherlands

  • And by careful crafting of the scattering pulses he was able to go all the way to that limit.

    ECONOMIST: Small-scale physics

  • As the king danced with one of the guests, a newly married noblewoman named Caterina Quirini, his buckle caught a string of pearls that adorned the belt of her dress, scattering them on the floor.

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  • From the pattern of this scattering, and from the sizes of the asteroids (which tells you how fast they will scatter), it is possible to calculate the date of the original collision.

    ECONOMIST: Asteroid impacts

  • And a few years before that, an 80-tonne space rock called 2008 TC3 ploughed into the Earth's atmosphere, largely burning up and scattering fragments over the Sudan - just 20 hours after it was discovered.

    BBC: Science & Environment

  • This refraction eliminates both the red end of the spectrum (red light is not bent enough by the air layer to form part of the second image) and the blue frequencies (which are scattered away: this selective scattering is why the sky is blue).

    ECONOMIST: In a flash

  • But with the offensive sending the fighters scattering, residents are once again roaming the streets without fear.

    CNN: France to start pulling troops from Mali in March

  • Every year on the Feast of St Michael, the townspeople propitiate the sea spirits by solemnly burning a boat and scattering its ashes on the water.

    BBC: Sailing in Croatia

  • Mrs Smith said she was still hoping to fly to New Zealand for the scattering of her grandfather's ashes.

    BBC: Border Agency's visa renewal delay angers grieving woman

  • So does the scattering of price differentials tell us anything, then?

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  • In contrast, we exploit the scattering.

    CNN: A camera that can see around corners

  • What is new about Dr Cinzano's research, which is about to be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, is that he and his colleagues have managed to take account of the effects of back-scattering by clouds and dust in the atmosphere, as well as the effects of the original sources of the light themselves.

    ECONOMIST: Going, going, nearly gone

  • Oliver Delaire, a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is spearheading research with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology using neutron scattering and computer simulations to tweak the structure and dynamics of thermoelectric materials.

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  • The municipality of Philipstown is composed of a scattering of villages and hamlets along the Hudson River, about fifty miles north of Manhattan in Putnam County.

    NEWYORKER: Fox Among the Chickens

  • Among dozens of tweets in recent weeks, there are only a scattering of references to the girlfriend he is now accused of killing earlier Thursday.

    NPR: Runner's Twitter Feed Is A Long Victory Lap

  • Our correspondent said the plane broke up on impact, scattering debris and passengers' belongings across an area the size of a football pitch.

    BBC: Aftermath of the plane crash near Abuja airport in Nigeria

  • The French may profess satisfaction at scattering Ansar Dine, thanks to months of painstakingly compiled intelligence on the group's bases.

    CNN: Six reasons events in Mali matter

  • The rest walk from downtown to the neighborhoods, scattering in all directions across bridges, through underpasses, beneath trestles, up hills to dark residential streets, solitary figures beneath thought bubbles of warm breath and cigarette smoke.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Citizen Vince'

  • In India, electric crematoriums, which are cheaper than the elaborate ritual of the funeral pyre, are becoming increasingly popular, while in China ash-scattering-at-sea is becoming all the rage.

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  • The camp, which he bought from the Molson family in 2000, is a scattering of four white clapboard buildings on 5, 000 acres at the mouth of the little-known Godbout River.

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  • "This is how the sheen colouration is generated, without the occurrence of coherent scattering like in 'traditional' structural feathers, " says Dr Galvan.

    BBC: Earth News - Birds unveil 'silver wings'

  • They obey each other's directions as if playing a game, two men hopping about in the dead grass, scattering glowing pine needles like sparks.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Woodsburner'

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