With the job long since done the Lions eased off the accelerator in the second half but Bowe was still hungry and he took the chance to turn from provider into finisher.

BBC: Golden Lions 10-74 Lions

The U.S. Open champion raced through the opening set in just 23 minutes, and while she took her foot off the accelerator in the second, the match was always within the 15th seed's keeping.

CNN: Kirilenko shocks Sharapova in Melbourne

It takes an average driver a fifth of a second to move his foot from accelerator to brake.

ECONOMIST: Drive by wire

He has had a solid success on his second trip to the plate as the founder and CEO of online game accelerator Sichuan Xunyou Network Technology, a company that supports up to 4, 000 online games in an online game market that has spawned billionaires such as Chen Tianqiao of Shanda Games, Ma Huateng of Tencent and William Ding of Netease.

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Even though these graphics chips whip up close to 1 million polygons a second, they bog down in the data, which can travel only so fast between the graphics accelerator and the memory chips nearby.

FORBES: Comeback kid