Exactly what is a rare earth metal is very slightly arguable, some would say it is only the lanthanides, lanthanum, cerium through to lutetium in that little box at the bottom of the periodic table.
What's rare is for everybody to publish opinions explaining why they thought what they did.
What is clear is that the number of bone remains is very rare more than 14, 000 years ago.
Donana is to Spain what Yosemite is to the United States: It is home to rare wildlife and is a key stop for migratory birds.
What he argued was that it is very rare for a Category 3 hurricane to make landfall north of North Carolina.
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What Thriller also achieved is one of those rare where-were-you-at-the-time moments.
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For a video game rookie to come up with a smash success and follow it up with what looks like a hit sequel is a rare thing indeed.
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Such extreme, unprovoked violence is mercifully rare in this country and that, in part, is what made it so shocking.
Some of the stuff is rare, and who knows what other kids will do to get it.
"What she sees is an opportunity to be the rare national news outlet that has deep roots in local bases, " he says.
All in all, this legislation is that rare end product of what happens when Americans of all parties and places come together in common purpose to consider something more than the politics of the moment.
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Reliable and detailed figures in publishing are rare but, for what it is worth, American publishers are reporting strong increases in sales of paperbacks and school textbooks and disappointingly small increases in sales of novels and science books.
What everyone has been waiting for is something as rare as a simultaneous eclipse of the sun and the moon: a time when the four Beatles (and their widows), both Apple companies and EMI are all on the same side.
The utility now knows what is happening in its network and power cuts have become rare.
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The creative search may be endless, but in those rare moments when the artist finds what he is seeking, art can have the same power as love.
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The stiff upper lip days are long gone, and while Britain still supplies valuable intelligence and a relatively reliable vote in international organizations, it is increasingly unwilling or unable to supply what has become rare from our allies: hard military power.
To be fair, no one can accurately predict the future, and only a rare few see bubbles for what they are before it is too late.
But the injected killed virus version is what's given in the United States today because of the rare instances of people developing polio from the oral vaccine.
President Obama, meanwhile, prepared for a rare Saturday Capitol Hill visit to twist Democratic arms on what is considered by some to be a make-or-break issue for his young administration.
Cincinnati Children's is a rare case in the U.S. health care system of what happens when factory-style operations management conquers the improvisational and often sloppy delivery of care in hospitals.
If you are, however, that rare fence sitter, you might wonder just what's going on here--is this car worth the dough or not?
The problem is that operating markets on the basis of barter is a pain: you have to scout around looking for the rare person who wants what you have and has what you want.
What we have found is that the level of entrepreneurship across countries varies and that high impact entrepreneurs are a rare breed indeed.
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Vanderbilt University's director of the Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD), believes the new data adds to what's already been known about ASD in other parts of the world -- that autism is not rare.
Sitting for a rare interview in a London garden flat on a rainy November day, he compares what he is ready to unleash to the damning e-mails that poured out of the Enron trial: a comprehensive vivisection of corporate bad behavior.
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Yet the report is relatively rare because, rather than dealing in the usual vague global generalisations, it concentrates on what might happen in a fairly small area.
This is the first clear example of what many doctors have been predicting for several years: that for patients with rare, undiagnosable diseases, DNA sequencing will become the court of last resort.
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