Friend vibrates a lead zirconate titanate crystal, and those vibrations twist a spring-like element attached to a rotor.
The situation was calmer in Georgia, where Atlanta's spring-like high of 76 topped the 1890 record by 1 degree.
Michael Kors this month showed a coat worn with shorts, while Vera Wang showed dark-colored sleeveless fur coats and wool shrugs with light chiffon dresses in colorful spring-like prints.
In the '90s, Will Smith's summer anthem "Miami" described a never-ending spring break-like atmosphere, surpassing New York and Los Angeles as the place to "party in the city where the heat is on, all night on the beach 'til the break of dawn".
The museum, designed by architect Moshe Safdie, is named for a nearby spring and its bridge-like architectural elements.
To its south, officials say, Europe has leveraged its domestic buying power, trade policy and aid to offer help to post-Arab Spring countries like Tunisia, Jordan and Egypt.
And a deal with Motorola, a maker of mobile phones, to include iPod-like music-player software on some handsets, starting this spring, should attract even more users.
The spring selling season is like Christmas for home-improvement retailers, and this year, Christmas is coming early.
Showing up to spring training that early is like a high-school kid going back to class during Christmas break because he just felt like reviewing the Franco-Prussian War.
So, too, could a spring budget that, like December's pre-budget report, failed to spell out a credible plan to reduce the deficit.
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In my yard I grow a type of bearded irises called 'Eternity, ' which puts out violet-scented white flowers not just in spring, like most irises, but again in the fall.
But at this point, people in the Rockies and Midwest would have been happy if it felt like spring when the season officially began -- on Wednesday -- as winter won't go quietly.
The long-legged power flamingos are popping up like spring flowers on a hillside near you.
We played for another 10 years, but we still laugh about the ringing in the ears and the workman-like way we went at each other that spring, conditioning ourselves to raise our threshold for pain.
It offers 56 megabits per second over a 30-mile radius. (The current standard is 11 megabits per second over a half-mile.) Wi-Max antennas on roofs and water towers will spring up like crazy and may begin to threaten the cable and local telephone empires.
Hatwalk is part of "Surprises", which sees pop-up performances spring up at locations across London throughout the summer like no other.
At his rural farmhouse, Mas Trucafort, he and his wife host cooking classes and meals featuring foods that are typical of the region, like delicious calcots -- a cross between a spring onion and a leek -- served with romesco sauce, and artichokes served with Catalonia's favourite accompaniment, the garlic sauce allioli.
From smartphones to e-readers and everything in between, there's no time like the present to re-up that post-spring-cleaning stash.
But the attention stretched well beyond Feb. 2 when Gmoser last week issued an indictment as winter-like weather continued across much of the nation even as spring began.
For spring he delivered clothes that are bound to fly off the racks like half-zip sweaters, knitted henleys, slim swim trunks, and the rugby shirts and tailored cargo pants that have become his signature.
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The turbines themselves, though, will be much bigger - like the giants inaugurated by Energy Secretary Chris Huhne at Delabole this spring.
Northeasterners like crown molding and wainscoting, while Florida buyers often spring for a screened-in lanai and a bathroom specifically for the pool area.
She recommended regulators put banks through extra stress tests much like the ones the Treasury put the TARP-recipient banks through last spring, only with more onerous assumptions.
The closest spring to town is Ain al-Arais, a cool, inviting waterhole with a grotto-like bottom, just five minutes' walk from the central market.
It's no coincidence that when mark-to-market accounting was modified this spring the equity markets, led by financial companies, took off like rockets from their lows.
Global events had led to millions of un- and under-employed youth whose frustration with the status quo was being demonstrated by events like the Arab Spring and Occupy movements in the United States.
These are the students like the ones I visited in their state-of-the-art radiology lab last spring at Delgado Community College in New Orleans.
Many homeowners had been hoping that home values would rise again this spring like they did in the spring of 2009 (they rose 8% between March 30 and mid-August, by Radar Logic's measure).
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An image recognition service on a mobile phone looked a lot like something Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ) demonstrated in the spring.
It's true that Volcker talked to the President about issues like this as far back as the financial regulatory speech the then-presidential candidate gave in the spring of 2008.
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