Word: dust
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...prosecution: Peter de Vries, a Dutch crime journalist, who presented his eagerly awaited take on the case on a Dutch commercial television station. The advocate for the defense: a rival channel, which aired an interview with one of the prime suspects in the case. Left in the dust as hapless bystanders were the official prosecutors in Aruba, who have failed to bring anyone to trial almost three years since Holloway was last seen leaving a nightclub with Joran van der Sloot and two friends on the night...
...characteristically proud and pedantic speech before Parliament on Tuesday, Prodi challenged his fellow politicians to vote him out publicly rather than cut deals behind closed doors. After the speech, Berlusconi ally Gianfranco Fini saw the speech as evidence that the battered Prime Minister was already starting to dust off his suit. "Prodi opened his [next] electoral campaign today," he said. This time, however, there may be no race left...
...Today the space that will be Masdar City, near the international airport, is still empty sand - save for 25 different solar panels being run in an 18-month experiment to see which kind of photovoltaic technology works best in Abu Dhabi's punishing environment. (Extreme heat and dust - common in the desert - can reduce the efficiency of many solar panels.) For Gulf nations like the UAE, blessed with no shortage of sunlight, solar power could potentially be the oil of the future. "I think there is great, great potential here," says project manager Sameer Abu Zaid, as he toured...
...years ago, Perper points out, by a bloke named Ovid. As dating books go, The Art of Love leaves more recent publications like The Layguide: How to Seduce Women More Beautiful Than You Ever Dreamed Possible No Matter What You Look Like or How Much You Make in its dust. And yes, that's a real book...
...Statue of Liberty (a nod to two postapocalyptic classics at once, Planet of the Apes and Escape from New York) and a giant monster (the number of horns wasn't available at press time) shouldering its way between skyscrapers. But the most indelible images are of clouds of pale dust billowing down city streets and shredded copy paper sifting down out of the sky in eerie silence, images that instantly evoke the 9/11 attacks. "With Cloverfield, we were trying to create a film that would be entertaining and, as a by-product of the subject matter, perhaps be a catharsis...