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HOW is a speck of dust like an atom bomb?
There probably wasn't a speck of grease on that machine.
That's not a speck of dust on your screen—it's Venus.
A speck of dirt is way more qualified to be president.
How about a speck of volcanic rock in the South Atlantic?
But these robots are the size of a speck of dust.
Naturally, the boys get a speck of paint on the dollar.
Each of these elements is, to my eye, a speck of pollen.
First the gas chromatograph vaporized a speck of the powder inside a tube.
Chargers fans like Casillas just might find a speck of happiness in that.
That's barely a speck of the country's 71,300 megawatts of installed solar capacity.
It could be like there's a speck of nitrogen that got in there.
We only take like a speck of InGaAs and put it onto the chip.
For a bomb it is many kilometres; for a speck of dust mere centimetres.
Honnold is a speck of T-shirt floating against a completely flat rock face.
Second, there's barely a speck of truth in what Trump is saying here. 433.
A speck of europium and terbium lights up our TVs in brilliant reds and greens.
How is there even a speck of a doubt that Clinton might lose to Trump?
"Each drop became a speck of light, known to us as a star," Kurlansky writes.
I could picture it clearly: a well-spiced cake with not a speck of sugar.
PACARAIMA is a speck of a town in the Brazilian Amazon on the border with Venezuela.
In the air were the blue-winged olives, mayflies no bigger than a speck of fuzz.
"There is no room for mistakes — not a speck of dust, not a fingerprint," she said.
Albritton was raised in a speck of a town called Marion at the northern edge of Louisiana.
A single piece could range from a speck of microplastic to an entire snack bag, she noted.
"They threw him out into the arena without a speck of training," Mr. Ledoux told the court.
It is difficult to find a speck of dust on the city streets, patrolled by impeccably-dressed policemen.
Isn't that what visiting a speck of land divorced from a larger speck of land is all about?
But at sunrise on June 0003, 1980, a speck of salvation appeared on the horizon and grew larger.
One morning, I took the ferry to Cheung Chau, a speck of land southwest of Hong Kong Island.
But with carfentanil, 0.02 milligrams — hardly more than a speck of dust — could be enough to kill a person.
" Silverman returns to the stage in a Netflix comedy special on May 30, "Sarah Silverman: A Speck of Dust.
Young longhorned ticks are extremely small, and have been compared to a speck of dust or a poppy seed.
Perspective on how tiny you are, floating on a speck of dirt in the infinite dust bunny we call reality.
Correct the seasoning with salt and pepper, and add a small dab of Dijon mustard and a speck of cayenne.
Magnify a speck of dirt a thousand times, and suddenly it no longer seems to play by the same rules.
"This looked like a speck of wood and I would never had thought of it being a deer tick!" he wrote.
Such is the plight of the Galapagos Island of Seymour Norte, a speck of 455 acres off the coast of Ecuador.
The key player in the transaction was a corporation based on Niue, a speck of an island in the South Pacific.
You can see the Earth below, parts of the station, and a speck of the bright sun in his reflective visor.
Although the special has the very pessimistic title of A Speck Of Dust, the videos prove Silverman is secretly an optimist.
It is as easy to put together as any type of cookie dough, but not a speck of sugar goes in.
He started visiting often and even bought a house in Bombay Beach, a speck of a town on the eastern shore.
Now, farmers are adapting the age-old elixirs — a dash of ginseng here, a speck of licorice there — for use on livestock.
That model then becomes a virtual-reality exhibition, letting anyone travel to an ancient place without getting a speck of dust on them.
It reminds us that the sum total of our existence is contained on a speck of rock floating in a vast starry ocean.
It won't keep your keys from succumbing to a speck of dust, but at least you won't have to pay for the fix.
For Hindus, a speck of land in the city of Ayodhya is believed to be where the revered deity Lord Ram was born.
While the well is all but "a pimple on a speck" of the Arctic's massive landscape, he said, it is a prevailing mystery.
Mr. Lubbock saw a speck of disapproval, for example, in friends who wondered why he wasn't exploring wild alternative options to cure his cancer.
When you spot a meteor, you're seeing a speck of space debris reach about 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit as it burns up in our atmosphere.
He told Quartz that there's not a speck of irony in his passion for Shrek, which he compared, for some reason, to ice cream.
"Montana Ag Live" offers taxpayers a speck of reassurance that a republic administered by a fair, competent and good-humored bureaucracy might still exist.
But through the binoculars, it was enormous and white, the International Space Station hovering before it like a speck of dust on the lens.
Footage of the attack, released by the militia's media center, shows a speck of light flying across a field, hurtling toward a distant target.
There's not a speck of the chilly apathy of the stereotypical shopgirl: too good to be there, biding her time until something better comes along.
"I have no interest, none, zero, there's not even a speck of me that goes 'boy, 'I'd really want to be a politician,'" Gere said.
It's like trying to see a speck of dust one meter from a lighthouse itself when the lighthouse is hundreds of kilometers from the observer.
They frequently show millions of viewers their faces without a speck of makeup on, a particularly vulnerable act that makes them seem even more approachable.
"In every single dictator there is a speck of morality," he said, leaning across the table and pressing his thumb and forefinger together for emphasis.
Réunion, a former French colony that became an overseas department in 1946, is a speck of volcanic rock 400 miles off the coast of Madagascar.
HONG KONG — Yap Island, a speck of land in the Western Pacific best known for using huge stone discs as currency, was facing a medical mystery.
It wants to build underground creations that you, mere human, can ride at speeds up to to 150 mph, without ever encountering a speck of traffic.
It will make you realize how in comparison to the size of their wall of amps you are just a speck of dust in the universe.
I started to notice that the nights I accidentally wound up going out in jeans with not a speck of makeup on were the most fun.
But to the rare doctor who's seen otoconia with their own two eyes, they're individually indistinguishable, and collectively no more than a speck of white paste.
Of course, there's "Bad Blood," which, if you pay just a speck of attention to pop culture, you know is about a petty pop star argument.
"Hitler and the Nazis are just a speck of bird poop in more than 1,000 years of successful German history," he said, according to dpa news agency.
There isn't a speck of dirt, despite the fact that one of the strongest hurricanes in US history roared though the area less than a month ago.
He sneaked into a darkened junior high gym in a speck of a town in northern Louisiana and shot baskets by the light of the exit signs.
Make a scallop crudo, thinly sliced and adorned with just a speck of coarse salt, a dribble of extra-virgin olive oil and a drop of lemon.
But with a speck of the glitter that Tesla's Elon Musk sprinkles on his loss-making firm, they might capture investors' imaginations and resuscitate their parents' share prices.
It is no surprise then that Rustom is always dressed in his impeccable white naval uniform even in jail with not even a speck of dust defacing it.
"If we had a speck of hope, now there is none left," said Gisela Polo, the sister of Esteban Alejandro Polo, 220, one of the sailors who died.
I glissandoed down the mountain, a speck of a person having a larger-than-life moment, freed from the fear that had paralyzed me a few minutes before.
"I have no interest, none, zero, there's not even a speck of me that goes, 'Boy, I'd really want to be a politician,' " Gere told CNN last year.
The main objective of the fighting was a tiny airstrip that the Japanese were building at the western end of Guadalcanal, a speck of land in the Solomon Islands.
Within a few minutes, I have become a whole pack of harbor seals, then a woolly mammoth, a rabbit, a spruce, a speck of pollen, and an entire island.
David Brooks Opinion Columnist Occasionally you can see eternity in a speck of time, and occasionally you can see the logic of an entire historic moment in one event.
His diet, for years, consisted of plain pasta (a speck of basil would elicit shrieks of revulsion and outrage), protein bars, apples, and maybe — if I got lucky — a burger.
"The Big Ship" is the banger, a grandiose instrumental dirge that's hopeless, hopeful, happy, sad, and somehow always seems to get a speck of dust into both of my eyes.
"It seems like there might finally be a speck of light at the end of the tunnel; it's just that it's a really long tunnel," said a PNW corn exporter.
In her book "The Planets" (2005), Dava Sobel recalls hearing that her friend Carolyn, on being presented with a speck of moondust by a planetary scientist boyfriend, impulsively ate it.
He expects total loyalty from those who work for him -- and works to rid his inner circle of those he believes have shown even a speck of disloyalty to him.
They often rely on a speck of doubt, or a gap in the evidentiary trail, to make a bold claim, even if they ignore some of the other available proof.
The waiter and the restaurant's manager — who, tellingly, are given no names, just occupations — are a middle-aged lesbian couple hanging onto a "speck" of a home amid rampant overdevelopment.
" Earlier this year, Alexander Gauland, a co-leader of the AfD, dismissed the Nazi era as a "speck of bird poop in more than 1,000 years of successful German history.
Back in the 1980s, when DNA forensic analysis was still in its infancy, crime labs needed a speck of bodily fluid—usually blood, semen, or spit—to generate a genetic profile.
The 50-year-old herder was somewhere so far off road it had no name; the nearest inhabited place was Ayorou, a speck of a village a full day's walk away.
Without a speck of dialogue, the Pixar-esque film builds a terrifyingly relatable late capitalist dystopia where order and work ethic literally choke the color and creativity out of its inhabitants.
This is a fantasy version of the real Shabazz, and a rose-colored vision of her marriage, but in Ms. Ruff's hands there's not a speck of historical dust on her.
It's a speck of land in the Caribbean, off the coast of Nicaragua, with lovely blue waters and good lobster, a fueling stop for the speedboats rushing cocaine to the mainland.
Traveling 10 times faster than a bullet, a speck of debris less than half an inch wide can impact with the force of a hand grenade, meaning no object is benign.
Since announcing her right to rock a bare face, the songstress hasn't been spotted wearing a speck of lipstick, foundation, or cover-up — whether shopping for groceries or slaying a red carpet.
They were lucky: After a week at sea in a small, open craft, they made landfall on Bidong Island, a speck of land that would soon become the world's largest refugee camp.
People hugged her on their way out; if they had looked closely, they would have been able to see a speck of red paint on her necklace, a remnant from the attack.
The late 19th century saw an emerging, militaristic great power, with a fast-growing navy, eager to exploit a speck of land in the ocean even if that provoked an established global power.
You fear one day you'll walk into his apartment and he'll just be a speck of himself sitting in a chair, grounded down to a nub of where a person used to be.
If the sample survives without breaking, Dr. Silvera said he wanted to then open it up, relieving it of pressure, and see if there is a speck of solid metallic hydrogen still inside.
If you buy that nano texture upgrade, though, and you ever allow a speck of dust to grace it, don't you dare think about cleaning it with some water and a microfiber cloth.
They were both there, on a speck of land just half a mile across in southwest England's Bristol Channel, to cover a gathering of cloud enthusiasts for a story on climate change ... and clouds.
" Miley Cyrus had a similar shift last May in preparation of her album Younger Now; without a speck of glitter in sight, Cyrus was moving on from her Bangerz image to something more "normal.
A half an hour later, when I'd almost reached the opposite shore, I looked back and saw J. paddling toward me, a speck of green, ready to tug me to shore if I needed help.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - On the palm-fringed beaches of Christmas Island, a speck of land in the Indian Ocean between Australia and Indonesia, plastic waste is piling up on the white sand and killing marine life.
The woman of the hour wore a stylish off-the-shoulder floral blouse to lead craft tutorials, and Stewart didn't get a speck of paint on the top despite opting not to wear an apron.
That decision threatens the livelihoods of thousands of people on Boracay, a speck of an island in the central Philippines that has become a travel destination to rival Phuket, in Thailand, and Bali, in Indonesia.
Cameras could also be easily fooled — to the computer navigation system, a speck of dust on the lens might appear like a rock on the road ahead — and as lighting conditions changed, the cameras struggled.
As tiny as a speck of pepper or the period at the end of this sentence, sea lice are not lice at all but the microscopic larvae of marine life such as jellyfish and sea anemones.
The simplest explanation is that Nunes received a speck of evidence that could be packaged in such a way that, if you squint real hard, vindicates Trump's paranoid tweets about being wiretapped by the Obama administration.
Mr. Obama will visit the Midway Atoll, a speck of land in the Pacific, where he will highlight the creation of the largest marine preserve in the world and speak about the perils of climate change.
But nowhere has taught me as much about solitude and loneliness — the difference between them and how quickly those emotions can swing — as Orcas Island, a speck of land off the coast of mainland Washington State.
Everything in the movie is given an eye-pleasing Hollywood sheen; there is not a pimple to be found on the faces of Simon's fellow high school students, or a speck of trash on the sidewalk.
" Gauland said Saturday that Germans must take responsibility for 12 years of Nazi rule but argued that "Hitler and the Nazis are just a speck of bird poop in more than 1,000 years of successful German history.
Now, the Stealth is back with an even more refined design and a slightly bigger screen, but it still isn't any good at playing games—and there isn't even a speck of neon green paint on it.
But if you eliminate the fondue pot, and ladle the same gooey cheese mixture into a roasted squash, it becomes a far more demure addition to the menu — without losing a speck of its rich, creamy charm.
But in 48 images taken by New Horizons, the scientists were able to subtract the starlight, leaving behind a speck of MU69 right where they expected it to be, at the edge of a much brighter star.
In a seven-block stretch of Melrose Avenue, there were outdoor ads for "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" (Netflix), "Sarah Silverman: A Speck of Dust" (Netflix), "Transparent" (Amazon), "The Night Of" (HBO), "The Good Fight" (CBS) and "Superstore" (NBC).
Chief among them is the tardigrade, a creature no bigger than a speck of sand that can survive severe temperatures and pressures, outer space and all sorts of apocalyptic scenarios by entering a dormant state called anhydrobiosis.
WASHINGTON — When he ran against Donald J. Trump in 2016 for the Republican presidential nomination, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky quipped that "a speck of dirt would make a better president" than the bombastic businessman from New York.
There is often not a speck of wasted ink in one of these puzzles; every word means something, either a definition, synonym or lead, or an indication of the sort of answer you'll need to come up with.
The music, featuring Mr. McCraven with ace collaborators like the guitarist Jeff Parker and the vibraphonist known as Justefan, suggests an organic yet state-of-the-art melding of modern jazz and hip-hop, without a speck of compromise.
Torres Strait vs Japan On March 14, 1942, the Torres Strait was thrust into the war after Japan carried out a bombing raid on Horn Island, a speck of land just off the northern tip of the Australian mainland.
In Koldowo, a speck of a village some 125 miles northwest of Warsaw, residents said a group of North Koreans arrived in early 2124 for jobs at Remprodex, a manufacturer of shipping containers in the nearby town of Czluchow.
With this airstrike—which some already speculate will lead to a full-scale war—even these zealots who believe they memed the man into the world's most powerful office can't find a speck of good news buried under the rubble.
Still, the lack of any solid proof—a confirmed sighting on a trail camera, a dead cougar by the side of the road, a speck of DNA—suggests that Nova Scotians are seeing cougars where there are none to be seen.
" At the start of the book, a TV program informs us that each "exquisite, miraculous" structure is "a veritable picture of its whole life from its birth as a speck of dust to its end as a fragile miniature crystal flower.
BERLIN – A group of moderates in the nationalist Alternative for Germany is urging the party&aposs co-leader to apologize for calling the Nazi era a "speck of bird poop" in German history, a comment that drew condemnation across the mainstream political spectrum.
At the SoHo shop, there is an expanded array of mochi confections, like a matcha flavor with a meringue topknot and a speck of gold leaf, and another made with vanilla chip mochi and chiffon cake embedded with rainbow sprinkles, birthday cake-style.
ISLA PERICO, El Salvador — The offer was befuddling: A little over a year ago, families living on Isla Perico, a speck of an island in a destitute corner of El Salvador, were offered $7,000 each to pack up and move to the mainland.
The central contention centered on a call the park leaders put out for development proposals for a speck of land bordering the Sequoia Forest in Mineral King, California—land that in 1926 had been designated by Congress as a National Game Refuge.
Clinton coolly brushed from her shoulder a speck of lint, dirt — or perhaps nothing at all — as a Republican-led House panel subjected her to more than eight hours of questioning in October over her handling of the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya.
For one escapist hour, this endearing yet learned gathering offers taxpayers a speck of reassurance that a republic administered by a fair, competent and good-humored bureaucracy, where the people are connected by ideas and the fruits of the land, might still sort of, kind of exist.
It feels as far from the Russian World Cup as it is possible to be: a peaceful, pious place, a world away from the frenzy and the international festival being held in Moscow and St. Petersburg, a speck of civilization adrift in the endlessness of Siberia.
Actually, scratch magazine perusal — we're certain that most of you could name a few right now, without a speck of hesitation — J Lawr, J.Lo, and, of course, Kylie Jenner... The U.S. has more than its fair share of beauty influencers — but what about the rest of the world?
Her younger sister wept with happiness when she saw her, and for the next days, they seemed always to be touching: one rested her head on the other's stomach, one picked a speck of something off the other's arm, one had her fingers closed around the other's wrist.
Zwick said a tour guide told them that the reading near the Ferris wheel was because of a speck of radioactive dust that had traveled from the reactor to one of the Ferris wheel cars at the time of the explosion, and it's still there giving off a high radiation level.
So currently there's a hypothesis, about half a million objects ranging in size from a speck of paint all the way to a school bus that could harm any services and capabilities we depend upon, like global positioning system, banking, weather warnings, agriculture, TV communications, and soon even the internet.
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Just lie on the ground with your feet facing east, NASA recommends, and let your eyes adjust to the darkness (it may take about a half hour or so.) When you spot a meteor, you're seeing a speck of space debris reach about 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit as it burns up in our atmosphere.
While Buhler, Feldmann and I chatted in the LEO control room in Darmstadt, the antenna in Svalbard rotated on its spindles, quick and smooth like a robot arm, until the massive bowl was aimed at precisely the point on the horizon where Metop-B would appear, rising like a speck of dust in a sunbeam.
Originally a speck of a stop called MacPherson on the National Transcontinental Railway, the settlement was remote enough to have served from 1914 to 1920 as an internment camp, first for immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian empire, who were presumed to be hostile in the midst of World War I, then for political radicals.
Alessia Cara & Khalid Winner: From A Room: Volume 1, Chris Stapleton Cosmic Hallelujah, Kenny Chesney Heart Break, Lady Antebellum The Breaker, Little Big Town Life Changes, Thomas Rhett Winner: The Age Of Spin & Deep In The Heart Of Texas, Dave Chappelle Cinco, Jim Gaffigan Jerry Before Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld A Speck Of Dust, Sarah Silverman What Now?
David Ehrlich (IndieWire) Lazily recycling the '90s schlocky Joel Schumacher thriller of the same name (once a staple of video store shelves everywhere), this lifeless new version hits all the same beats as the original, but does so without a speck of the baroque style that made it such a fun thing to rent on a Friday night.
Alessia Cara and Khalid Cosmic Hallelujah — Kenny Chesney Heart Break — Lady Antebellum The Breaker — Little Big Town Life Changes — Thomas Rhett WINNER: From A Room: Volume 1 — Chris Stapleton WINNER: The Age Of Spin & Deep In The Heart Of Texas — Dave Chappelle Cinco — Jim Gaffigan Jerry Before Seinfeld — Jerry Seinfeld A Speck Of Dust — Sarah Silverman What Now?
Never is he more in his element than when bellowing the big numbers from "Oklahoma!" or "Carousel" onstage, and there's not a speck of doubt that, had he been born fifty or sixty years earlier, he would have given Howard Keel a run for his money as the Rodgers-and-Hammerstein shows bounced onto the screen.
He invited me to visit him at his lab at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium down in Cocodrie, a speck of a place at the end of Louisiana State Highway 56, where spiffy vacation homes and battered trailers perch on pillars that elevate them 12 feet or more above the ground to get through hurricane flooding.
But some members of the AfD, whose leaders have dismissed the Nazi era as a "speck of bird poop in more than 1,000 years of successful German history" and have referred to the country's main Holocaust Memorial as "a monument of shame," saw the offer from the Cinexx theater more as a provocation than an invitation.
She can, if required, play Clarice Starling, in "Hannibal" (2001), or an evil President, in two installments of "The Hunger Games" (2014-15); but she holds our attention with equal ease, and without a speck of vanity, when simply noodling around, as she does in Lelio's film—hand-washing her clothes in the bathroom sink, and pausing to tweak a hair from under her chin.
Listening to your voice, I hear the old music again—the Dells, Diablos, Drifters, Flamingos, Spaniels, Five Satins, Midnighters, Soul Stirrers—and it takes me back to those voices on the corner, in church, on records, radio, teaching me the fires in my belly, dance steps in my feet, the hungers, fun, sadness, loves lost and found all around me I only half understood and still don't, old man that I am today, but yearn so badly, teen-ager and now, to stay part of, that swirling, full-to-the-brim, overflowing life that sometimes fills me up, sways and staggers me, sweeps me off my feet, that elusive, loud, shaking, shouting world that could sometimes go silent and disappear, here then abruptly gone, passing me by as if I were nothing, nobody, less than a speck of dust or a tear no one sees falling, all of that, and more bitter and more sweet because, like you, Freddie Jackson, I was a colored boy and my world, my people, surrounded by others not colored, others inexplicably mean, crude, intimidating, evil as death.

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