'One touch'

Abraham Verghese A doctor's touch

How can the nervous system misinterpret an innocent sensation like the touch of a hand and turn it into the malevolent sensation of the touch of the flame?

Marco Tempest A magical tale

But there are no magic recipes for modernization.

We know that you do not have a magic wand ...

Naturally, there may be a touch of geopolitical calculation about this.

Lula has called this a magic moment for the Brazilian economy.

Governments cannot just conjure that up by waving a magic wand.

However, it is clear that we will not find miracle solutions.

Nor do I pretend that we have discovered the magic formula that would kick start the negotiations.

CAMBRIDGE There is no magic Keynesian bullet for the eurozone s woes.

There is no magic bullet for controlling XDR TB.

It wasn t just that distance lends a certain enchantment to any view.

I began the class by asking students whether they would approve of my carrying out a particular magic experiment.

This must be an exception, they kept repeating, like a mantra or a prayer.

The lightest touch of her arm the touch of a hand, the touch even of a sleeve, of a garment, as she put it on caused excruciating, burning pain.

The other 97 deficits did not magically appear.

And it is the French, the avatars of Enlightenment and the Rights of Man, who have stepped in to provide a patina of legitimacy to his political twilight.

We concede that there is no magic wand to overcome our country s problems.

Separation of powers might as well be an obeah spell. And forget about discussing our Executive arm the President, Chief Justice and Judiciary might as well be a council of wizards.

A recent study of runic magic suggests that runes were used to create magical objects such as amulets, but not in a way that would indicate that runic writing was any more inherently magical, than were other writing systems such as Latin or Greek.

In the late 1970s and 1980s, he went on to work with a ceremonial magical group known as the Ordine Della Luna, prior to his death.

you say, There's a magic word. It's called the tangent of an angle, and leave him alone. He'll figure it out.

The problem with this vision of tax reform is that it is magical an attractive illusion with no basis in reality.

Ban cannot simply reform the Security Council to reflect better the realities of this era.

Even in China there is no magic potion that can revive a loan to a defunct exporter.

We live in a world where everything is being rated, whether you are a professional judge or an individual trying to make sense of modern life.

Using three iPods like magical props, Marco Tempest spins a clever, surprisingly heartfelt meditation on truth and lies, art and emotion.

States could apparently almost magically create security and trust simply by imposing it.

And to me that I don't think I could say it any better than the immortal Bard himself One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Perhaps their successful rescue of the banking system also misled some central bankers into believing that they possessed the Midas touch.

Our cars have sensors by which they magically can see everything around them and make decisions about every aspect of driving.

And then, presto an unconventional fix magically satisfies the Fed s long neglected mandate to fight unemployment.

Football hooliganism and nationalism create a witch's brew that, until lately, has rarely been sipped in Asia.

Also, double touches are allowed in épée, although the touches must occur within 40 milliseconds (1 25 of a second) of each other.

The Greek government, for which restructuring is an admission of failure, continues to hope that good news will magically turn up.

The Arabic has an incantatory, almost hypnotic, quality that begs to be heard rather than read, felt more than analyzed.

We keep hoping that somehow meetings of heads of state will magically produce the policies that will rebalance world trade.

But a pure law and order response to these problems will not magically repair the damage inflicted by years of bad policy and neglect.

For example, leaves, seeds, and twigs that are white, black and red are seen as especially symbolic or magical and possess special properties.

Jeff Han shows off a cheap, scalable multi touch and pressure sensitive computer screen interface that may spell the end of point and click.

TOKYO The closing decade of the twentieth century offered a crystal ball for anyone peering into the future of the Asia Pacific region.

But then you get the smart, geeky kids that have a touch of autism, and that's where you've got to get them turned on with doing interesting things.

These bowls could be used by any member of the Jewish community, and almost every house excavated in the Jewish settlement in Nippur had such bowls buried in them.