Mint, saffron and cotton are just three of the crops that have been promoted, yet all have so far failed to make a dent in Afghanistan's only significant export.

ECONOMIST: Afghanistan's great purple hope

Yet even his all too convenient demise failed to arouse my suspicions.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Borges and the Eternal Orangutans'

First, Mr Brown has not yet conclusively failed the first test of all prime ministers: the Hippocratic one.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

Stranger yet, it failed to recognize my monitor at all.

CNN: The tale of the gratuitous GUI

Iressa won the backing of an FDA panel last September, which was a surprise because the drug had yet to demonstrate a clear survival benefit and failed to help at all when added to chemotherapy.

FORBES: Magazine Article

All of which helps explain why the region has failed as yet to lure in much foreign direct investment, beyond mining and farming.

ECONOMIST: An African success story

If it had sought yet another formal investigation into all Microsoft's business practices, that could have lasted several years and even then failed to get any relief for Netscape until too late.

ECONOMIST: Microsoft��s browser

And yet it is a miracle that Voyager 2 managed to send anything back at all, for its main radio system failed soon after launch, and its back-up system proved to be faulty.

ECONOMIST: The long arm of the celestial repairman