But every Christmas, one of the nurses used to give me chocolate brazils... so I used to suck the chocolate off and give the nuts back to the other nurses.

BBC: The secret asylum knitting club

Huddled under a mattress in their hallway, they prayed the tornado would not pull the roof off and suck them away, said Ms. Ozuna, a 36-year-old hairdresser.

WSJ: At Least 6 Dead in Texas Twisters

They offer a model for the future of the legal industry, in which the biggest American and British firms pair off and suck other top European firms into a few global giants.

ECONOMIST: Professional services

Years of watching her peers suck down cigarette after cigarette to stave off hunger, the now 49-year-old beauty knew there had to be a better way to look great and feel healthy.

FORBES: To Sell Skinny, ThinkThin's Model Founder Gambles On Good-For-You Candy

Higher interest rates add to the cost of the loan and suck away money that should be used to pay off debt, to spend or to save.

FORBES: How The Debt Ceiling Talks Affect All Americans

Another dilemma: Should I defend my original column (" Fat, florid, farcical") or the imaginary Microsoft suck-up job that Dvorak thinks I wrote and somewhat justifiably tees off on?

FORBES: Dvorak is wrong

Unlike the emergency feature on your keyfob, which sounds a loud alarm and notifies potential kidnappers that you're a fighter, the Nokia phone pretends that it's off when it's actually using every available sensor to suck in data about your location and captors.

ENGADGET: Nokia's cellphone for kidnap victims