Sony's Xperia Tablet Z was a hot item at last week's Mobile World Congress because of its sleek design and functionality, with the ability to withstand getting wet a cool add-on.
Burberry's finale sent its guys down the U-shaped path through the crowd in clear plastic raincoats with a surprise (to them as well, it seemed) rainstorm crashing down, engineered to such a fine tolerance that none of the front-row grandees--inches away--so much as wet a knee.
Why had the New Yorker shied away from the TSA agent planting a wet one on a female passenger?
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After a wet April, a deluge in mid-May washed out gravel supporting the rails, and 15 cars on a Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train derailed.
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The upper level has a two-story tower room, a wet bar, a glass-enclosed Conservatory and Pavilion that open onto a wraparound terrace with park and sunset views.
He made his way to the faucet in the corner, where he drank deeply of the sweet water and peed, first removing from the sink a wet bedsheet with a large black-rimmed hole burned in its middle.
There's also a den with a full wet bar and a large modern kitchen with two dishwashers and another fireplace.
When humans blossomed from the evolutionary tree, it seems there was a cold wet nose and a wagging tail waiting for us.
These estimates feel a bit like a wet finger held up in a gale swirling in different directions - more hunch than exact science.
The RNLI says a wet summer has led to a small drop in the number of lifeboat crews called out on the coast of Wales.
Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape.
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My jeans are sopping wet from a leak in my rain slicker, and my legs are sore--but not as bad as before.
Even when wet, a Golden Retriever scarf doesn't smell any more like dog than a typical wool sweater smells like sheep, she says.
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Utah is blessed with powdery snow that is slippery without being particularly wet, a resource that it shares with very few other places.
They also call during weekends or ask for prescription refills using excuses such as having dropped the pills in toilets or getting pills wet on a camping trip, physicians said.
Zeneca ordered a "wet" copy of a promising gene, in the form of a clone -- a colony of bacterial cells whose members all carry the desired snippet of DNA. These bacterial guinea pigs can then be used to try out antibacterial chemicals.
Most raw production estimates, especially by field, tend to be wet, a number that is larger than the dry volume that would relate to national demand for natural gas, or to the longevity of the resource base (which is also usually a dry-gas estimate).
Now, 30% doesn't automatically trigger precipitation icons, and a more complex algorithm decides when the company signals wet weather, with a goal of removing the wet bias.
The office of lost bus objects was lit like a dungeon and smelled like a wet sock, its counter manned by a lanky kid in a floppy Santa hat.
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The 78, 743 fans who turned up to Twickenham on a wet and blustery day were treated to a prolonged spell of kick tennis early on before the energetic Lewis Moody - one of the few England players who can be proud of his display - managed to charge down Santiago Fernandez's clearance.
Jacobsen disrupted the South Africa scrum throughout the contest at a wet Murrayfield as the Scots bounced back from a record defeat to New Zealand.
Once passengers are on board, the long-haul destination produces an instant camaraderie, and people begin to gather in the lounge car in an interesting cross-section that ranges from a beaming American family, heading for a wet week of ancestor-hunting, to a half-mooned lawyer type with a share in a Highland estate.
The new man is something of a wet fish compared to Polenin, but he respects a timetable and is determined, for professional and personal reasons, to get K-19 launched on time.
For much of the way it was a gentle wade through shallow water, the wet rocks providing a surprisingly firm grip for both sandals and bare feet.
She writes of the three times that Jane was removed from the stability of her home at three months to a wet-nurse in Steventon village, at seven to a horrible boarding school, at 25 to a nomadic, spa-haunting existence and she argues that these upheavals helped to create the defensive, self-protective spikiness of which her contemporaries sometimes complained.
The bathroom installation featured a "wet room" -- a growing trend in bathroom design -- that incorporates an open floor plan.
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She reached for a wet towel and quickly swiped it across the mattress, then shook out a clean sheet and managed to slip it underneath him just as he was becoming too heavy for her to hold where he was.
Applicants are encouraged to have a set of wet-weather clothing, a good level of fitness and, above all, a flexible schedule.
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