• Certainly it casts Flickr as the monomythic web service, now ready for a return to the ordinary world.

    FORBES: Instagram Recovers From A Stumble As Flickr Reaps The Reward

  • What you will recognise is that this is from the ordinary world.

    BBC: Philip Glass: Have a sleep during Einstein on the Beach

  • Of course, intellectuals, whom I de fine as those who think ideas are more important than people, are notoriously bad at seeing the ordinary world and coming to moral decisions about it.

    FORBES: Men Blinded by Their Brains

  • Only 45% believe they can make a difference as ordinary citizens, compared to 62% in Asia Pacific, 73% in Latin America and 81% in North Africa and the Middle East, two regions of the world where ordinary citizens were able to overthrow corrupt, money-hoarding dictators.

    FORBES: Russia Plagued by Corruption Perception

  • To have hospital staff simply treat that as nothing out of the ordinary meant the world to him.

    CNN: Same-sex couples take long road to the altar

  • And, with faith in the future, we must always stand with the courageous advocates, organizations, and ordinary citizens around the world who fearlessly fight for limitless opportunity and unfettered freedom.

    WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Proclamation--Captive Nations Week

  • Jenin is a rare place in the Arab world where ordinary people have a good word for Tony Blair, whose visits as envoy for the Quartet (the EU, Russia, the UN and the United States) put the city on the map.

    ECONOMIST: Palestinians and the talks

  • And they show the world that ordinary people in the Middle East want the same things for their children that we want for ours -- a decent life and a peaceful future.

    CNN: Text of President Bush's speech

  • People pretend the world is ordinary every day.

    NEWYORKER: The Yellow

  • The 39-year-old from England, who has suffered nearly 20 lung collapses due to a condition known as Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), is part of a multinational crew taking part in the bi-annual Clipper Round the World Yacht Race -- the only sailing race in the world where crews are made up by ordinary people, many with little or no sailing experience.

    CNN: July 12, 2012 -- Updated 1330 GMT (2130 HKT)

  • There is also much comment about what the newspapers are calling "people power" - the hundreds of local volunteers who, since last Saturday, have been emulating the efforts of ordinary Americans in New York immediately after the World Trade Center attacks.

    BBC: Algeria army helps flood victims

  • Businessmen, politicians and ordinary people across the poor world often blame western moneymen for their ills.

    ECONOMIST: The face of Mammon

  • Pretty ordinary stuff in the world of social media, but revolutionary for North Korea, a country with intricate rules to stage manage the flow of images and information both inside and beyond its borders.

    NPR: Tweets, Pics Give Real-Time Peek Into North Korea

  • For The World is no ordinary cruise ship.

    ECONOMIST: Artists of the floating world

  • On a hundred newsgroups, mailing lists and chat sites, ordinary people can tell the world what they like, what they hate, and what they are buying or returning.

    ECONOMIST: Eventually, bigger means different

  • It is experience that can give a person a common touch and a sense of compassion, an understanding of how the world works and how ordinary people live.

    CNN: Transcript of Obama-Sotomayor announcement

  • The telephone-equipment companies want voice dialling (useful in cars), automatic call-centres, computerised operator-services and messaging that allows users to pick up and send e-mails and faxes on an ordinary telephone anywhere in the world.

    ECONOMIST: Can machines talk? From next month they will

  • Anderson wants to say something quirky and powerful about love and the miraculousness of ordinary lives, but his world neither intersects with ours at any point nor hangs together as an independent magical creation.

    NEWYORKER: Punch-Drunk Love

  • It was first levied in 1902 as a way of getting the rich to help pay for the construction of the Kaiser's navy, putting it among the lesser-known causes of the first world war. (Ordinary folk were doing their part by drinking beer.) It was scrapped in 1933 to stimulate the economy but Hitler brought it back, again with martial intent, six years later.

    ECONOMIST: German taxes

  • If the coalition forces can now avoid many more civilian deaths and injuries, this will be of help in convincing the many governments around the world that opposed the war, from Paris to Cairo, as well as ordinary Iraqis themselves, that it was worth the suffering.

    ECONOMIST: Saddam's regime topples

  • At the heart of the competition were ordinary people slogging it out in one of the most grueling races of its kind in the world -- and all for charity.

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  • Boston collector Fred Sharf collects 1950s "high style" pieces designed by Van Cleef, but he's lately started buying "retro" pieces that were made with "ordinary stones" like citrine during the Depression and World War II.

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  • And I want to wish everybody around the country a day in which they reflect on the extraordinary contributions that ordinary people can make each and every day to make America the most hopeful country in the world.

    WHITEHOUSE: Generations Remember Civil Rights Movement

  • "The beauty of it is, I can cherry-pick products and hire world-class money managers unavailable to ordinary investors, " says Jeffrey A. Weber, the 33-year-old chief executive.

    FORBES: Achieving immortality via the family office

  • It always comes down to one guy usually an ordinary cop or the bespectacled bookworm to save the world.

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  • That compulsiveness extends to ordinary users some of whom seem incapable of acknowledging the world around them as they burrow down into their smartphones.

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  • Although most people the world over say they prefer non-violence, ordinary people can get sucked into organised violence with relative ease, Mr Slim notes.

    ECONOMIST: Civilians in war

  • The Ordinary Business of Life: A History of Economics from the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century.

    ECONOMIST: Economic history

  • For the sake of stability, and out of respect for the dead king, the royal family, local politicians, ordinary Jordanians and a panoply of world leaders have rallied behind King Abdullah.

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