Tom looks amazing.

And it was absolutely wonderful.

The level of political corruption in America is staggering.

This year it's going to be even more spectacular than the last two years.

After 38 years of conflict, Colombians optimism is striking.

And, while military innovation has been spectacular, it is still very labor intensive.

Be spectacular! like the Greek heroes, like Jason, who went across the sea with the Argonauts and fetched the Golden Fleece.

Its recent growth record is stupendous no country in history can match it.

So he has no right to claim, as he has, a stunning victory in an epic intellectual debate.

The impact of all of this on the national debt and on Japan s interest rates could be staggering.

Despite the financial crisis, political and economic progress in Central Europe and the Baltic countries has been remarkable.

We've made a fascinating discovery there's nothing wrong with the kids that affection and sunshine and food and enthusiasm and Herbie's music can't cure.

Such progress, had it really been made in such a short period of time, would no doubt be an amazing feat.

For banks that have filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the sum stands at an astounding 2.2 trillion.

I had been tremendously invigorated by the knowledge and creativity that I found in that country, which had 60 percent landlessness but amazing creativity.

It is virtually certain that many of the MDGs will not have been met by the end of 2015, but there have been striking successes in some areas.

So, to find strong evidence of liquid, pools of liquid, beneath the surface of a moon 750 million miles away from the Earth is really quite astounding.

So, Chris said that the last speaker had a chance to try to integrate what he heard, and so this was amazing for me. I've never been in a gathering like this.

It was just extraordinary, and when I came back home I found a poem by the Mexican poet Octavio Paz, and decided to set it to music, a piece for choir called Cloudburst, which is the piece that we'll perform for you in just a moment.

Isn't that extraordinary? You cannot remember what happened to you earlier than the age of two or three, which is great news for psychoanalysts, because otherwise they'd be out of a job.

The research that my laboratory has been doing, that economists and psychologists around the country have been doing, have revealed something really quite startling to us, something we call the impact bias, which is the tendency for the simulator to work badly.

Since 2000, global onshore wind power generation has averaged 27 annual growth, while the growth rate for solar photovoltaics has been a staggering 42 .

LONDON To the surprise of many in the media at home and abroad Pope Benedict XVI s just completed visit to Britain was an outstanding success.

But actually when people went to the street the first time it was thousands of people in Alexandria it felt like it was amazing. It was great because it connected people from the virtual world, bringing them to the real world, sharing the same dream, the same frustration, the same anger, the same desire for freedom.

Researcher Hans Rosling uses his cool data tools to show how countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He demos Dollar Street, comparing households of varying income levels worldwide. Then he does something really amazing.

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Fiorenzo Omenetto shares 20 astonishing new uses for silk, one of nature's most elegant materials in transmitting light, improving sustainability, adding strength and making medical leaps and bounds. On stage, he shows a few intriguing items made of the versatile stuff.

And just as these groups embrace the green energy challenge and it's really been amazing to me to watch how much brain power, how much money and how much serious thought has, really over the last three years, just poured into the green energy field.

And that was amazing to be able to know that we had empowered that, and that blogging was something that she felt comfortable doing, and that the idea that blogging doesn't have to be scary, that we don't always have to be attack of the blogs, that we can be people who are open, and wanting to help and talk to people.

Finally, two years ago in Cuba, after advertising for entrepreneurs on Twitter, I had the opportunity to meet several dissidents. The meeting was fascinating, despite or perhaps partly because of the furtive glances of two watchful men peering at us from behind their newspapers at the next table.