There continues to be rapid growth of white-box or utility and basic tablets as well, given the low costs of production attained using components from Chinese chip producers Allwinner and Rockchip.

FORBES: Connect

Mr. Torme's NBC radio program was sponsored by Toni, and he made a splash when he packaged a Torme record in a pink-and-white Toni box.

WSJ: Public-Relations Pioneer Began With 'Toni Twins' Stunt

The frontier of biomedical research is inside an unassuming green box with a black-and-white touchscreen mounted on a rack in the International Space Station.

FORBES: Doing Science In Zero-G? You'll Have To Go Through Nanoracks

Almost any existing analogue TV, even a black and white one, can be converted with the addition of a digital set-top box.

BBC: Digital Switchover

Arizona leads the trend: 83% of Arizona's senior citizens identify as "non-Hispanic white, " but only 42% of its young people check that box on their census forms.

CNN: I see America's diverse future--in my house

In West Allis, a blue-collar suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, clean-cut college students in pressed white shirts sat with Palm Pilots and a big box of Krispy Kreme doughnuts, monitoring the flow of voters into the polls.

ECONOMIST: George Bush wins

Leeds substitute Aidan White crossed the ball from the right and Ibrahima Sonko, under pressure in the six-yard box, could only play the ball to Snodgrass, who duly converted.

BBC: Sport - Leeds 3-1 Ipswich

Everyone has a story to tell about the white-collar sarariman who lost his job and then his family, and who now lives in a cardboard box on the station concourse, still reading the financial pages every day.

ECONOMIST: Old, down and out in Japan