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Here, quite confounded with this mutiny.

Religious conservatives were stunned.

If this does not blow your mind, then you have no emotion.

At first I wondered if I was the cause of the panic.

And I was struck by just how wonderful it felt, and how contagious that feeling was.

She then revealed her face to the shocked family, who moved out of the house immediately.

I was shocked to see that they're not using a central air conditioning system every window has an air conditioner in it.

The Chinese today sound almost as stunned by the supposed mistreatment of the Olympic torch in London, Paris, and San Francisco as Americans were back in 2001 Why do they hate us so much? What have we done to them?

No, it's not. lt i gt lt i gt You're gonna be so impressed. I have a plan, baby. Can you believe it? lt i gt lt i gt I've written you letters.

If we fail to keep this rendezvous with history, future generations, whose hopes are all pinned on our Organization, will be amazed.

If you give me five minutes to try to convince you that chemistry is not torture but instead the amazing and beautiful science of stuff and if you give it a chance it will not only blow you mind but also give you a deeper understanding of your world.

An outbreak of Leishmaniasis in Rachidya is met with shock by Lamia, who is outraged by the lack of movement in treatment by the Moroccan Ministry of Health.

And just imagine the sense of wonder in a baby when it first discovers that, merely by uttering a sound, it can get objects to move across a room as if by magic, and maybe even into its mouth.

On the contrary, looking back on that era, it is amazing how much was achieved within such a short amount of time.

The recent events surrounding the publication of cartoons in Denmark have left everybody astounded especially editorial cartoonists like myself.

The Czech people are astonished that, at the end of the twentieth century, extremists espousing such ideologies can still prevail.

But many Japanese were dumbfounded to learn that their finance minister began to grapple with the basic principles of economics only after assuming office.

But several of the MPs had also been taken aback on discovering that when Obama spoke to them, he read from an invisible teleprompter.

The idea that the Internet, which changed all of our lives, can transform a country and a continent that has hardly made it to analog, let alone digital blows my mind.

Then if you're a cell inside that community, imagine what would happen, that you're on the job and all of a sudden there's less food coming in and you're a digestive center saying,

Ten days after the injection he lost half of his weight, lost his memory, became apathetic, did not respond and could not control his movements.

And just imagine the sense of wonder in a baby when it first discovers that, merely by uttering a sound, it can get objects to move across a room as if by magic, and maybe even into its mouth.

And one of the things in this picture that I wanted to point out is that when I saw these kinds of buildings, I was shocked to see that they're not using a central air conditioning system every window has an air conditioner in it.

The African Women s Economic Summit, which I attended recently in Nairobi, was electrified by the story of a woman who had set up her own construction firm in Cameroon. Her capital needs run into hundreds of thousands of dollars.

So it boggles many non Americans minds that so many in that great nation still do not wake up to the reality that four more years of Republican rule will further degrade and bankrupt the country.

Likewise, the leader of Britain s Conservatives, David Cameron, startled more old fashioned supporters of his party by saying that people released from prison need, above all, love. When Prime Minister Tony Blair described the next election as a fistfight in which the flyweight Cameron would be carried out and the heavyweight Brown victorious after a short bout, he got much applause from his supporters in the House of Commons, but the remark went down badly with voters.

PARIS Why do revolutions so often take professional diplomats by surprise? Is there something in their DNA that makes them prefer the status quo so much that, more often than not, they are taken aback by rapid changes, neither foreseeing them nor knowing how to respond once they begin?

But several of the MPs had also been taken aback on discovering that when Obama spoke to them, he read from an invisible teleprompter. This had misled his audience into thinking that he was speaking extemporaneously, a skill that is highly regarded in India.

Rather, through a combination of ingenious software and massive parallel computing power, they had produced a silicon based entity capable of such finesse and subtlety, that international chess grandmasters worldwide (including me) were simply amazed.

When his bizarre and unscheduled appearance in the square was broadcast on Central Chinese Television the next morning during one of the last days of uncensored media coverage people across China were stunned by this fleeting moment of all too human, official anguish.

But this never tarnished my high opinion of him. On the contrary, looking back on that era, it is amazing how much was achieved within such a short amount of time.