And the reality could be that once the Surface reaches the street, there could be a lot of unhappy customers out there.

FORBES: Microsoft Has A Problem With The Public's Expectation Of The Surface

It is expected to reveal the less salubrious parts of Roman London outside of the City walls with archaeologists anticipating to encounter Roman timber-framed buildings and a street surface 6m below ground level.

BBC: Crossrail dig unearths forgotten London

Bones and clothing thought to date back to Medieval times have been found underneath a Reading town centre street during surface repair works.

BBC: Medieval bones found underneath Reading's Friar Street

Thames Water has also been working on a surface water sewer main in the street.

BBC: Reading Friar Street cracked road surface

From there, they will snake across surface streets to reach the West 8th Street beach at Coney Island.

WSJ: Bathrooms' Long Trek to Replace Sandy-Wrecked Facilities

On the surface this looks like another roundup of the usual Wall Street suspects involved in a white-collar crime, except for one thing, Ross Mandell is no usual suspect and he is not backing down from this fight.

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Indeed, being focused on odors -- which themselves require air to move, or a surface to light on -- means that for my dogs, the street outside our apartment building is different each time we step out the door.

CNN: 'On Looking': The world you're not seeing

The Wall Street Journal reported that sales of IdeaPaint, a paint product that turns a wall surface into a whiteboard, have doubled since 2008.

FORBES: The Outline Trap

There is no threat from El Nino, an abnormal warming of surface ocean waters which disrupted even distribution of last year's monsoon rainfall, the official told The Wall Street Journal.

WSJ: India Set For Normal Monsoon