It is constantly there. And, just as an example, this is one that recently came to me.

Tom had something important to say, but Mary kept interrupting him.

So, I turned on the TV, and I don't watch TV very much, but you know this person? This is Paris Hilton, apparently.

And a more recent one The possibility of sustaining high culture in our time is becoming increasing problematical.

The elements that make up the ceiling grid and the lighting, they're all losing their modular quality, and moving more and more to these infinitesimal dimensions.

And we had custom espresso cups made that hide a magnet inside, and make those compasses go crazy, always centering on them.

is a perversion of this where people who may be very good looking regard themselves as hideously ugly and are constantly seeking surgery to correct their facial appearance.

A year and a half ago, four of the five people who are full time members at Ushahidi, which means testimony in Swahili, were TED Fellows.

it's similar to being a vocalist, except instead of it coming out of your throat, you're controlling it just in the air and you don't really have a point of reference you're always relying on your ears and adjusting constantly.

The confines of the Gaza Strip, which is just forty kilometers long and ten kilometers wide, are being shrunk even further by relentless Israeli invasions, by the imposition of an arbitrary and expanding buffer zone and by the targeting of civilians and farmers trying to live on and earn a living from their land.

And politicians call on us continually to draw down more debt, to draw down our own savings even further, just so that we can get the show back on the road, so we can keep this growth based economy going.

One strength appears to be a firm grasp of electoral law, which Shein and a large network of local bloggers have demonstrated in a growing online archive of documented fraud, hosted on individual LiveJournal accounts.