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learning > grammaire anglaise - niveau avancé
groupe verbal
verbes à particule adverbiale,
verbes à particule adverbiale dans la presse / en contexte
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NoW 30.11.2003
verbe à particule adverbiale = Base Verbale + adverbe
La particule adverbiale fait partie du verbe.
Sauf contextes particuliers, la séquence se prononce comme un seul mot.
Loomus Steven Appleby The Guardian Family p. 2 29 October 2005
The Guardian p. 12 8 July 2005
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Flash Gordon Jim Keefe Created in 1934 by Alex Raymond 14 November 2004 http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/fgordon/about.htm
Base Verbale + adverbe
≠
Base Verbale + préposition
Confondre ces deux formes peut donner lieu à un contre-sens :
le journal Le Monde traduit une phrase d'une chanson de Madonna, "I'm just living out the American dream", par "Je vis en-dehors du rêve américain" (Le Monde, 13-14.4.2003).
Contre-sens complet : la phrase signifie : "Je vis à fond le rêve américain" (verbe à particule adverbiale live out).
Il y a ici confusion entre out, particule adverbiale qui intensifie le sens de la Base Verbale (BV), et out of, groupe prépositionnel.
Live out est d'ailleurs un phrasal verb iconique dans le contexte du "rêve américain".
Martin Luther King l'emploie dans son discours "I have a dream" (28 août 1963) :
"I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. / I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." "
Cette dernière phrase est une citation de la Déclaration d'indépendance des Etats-Unis (4 juillet 1776), § 2 :
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness (...)."
- Syntaxe
La particule adverbiale peut parfois précéder la Base Verbale.
Cet effet de style se rencontre chez certains écrivains (Katherine Mansfield), ou dans les "billets" journalistiques :
Applause thundered down like monsoon rain on a tin roof. Clappiness is compulsory! To my right sat a septuagenarian lady down whose thick-rouged cheeks flowed real tears. The rivulets created a wadi in her makeup. In flew the soundbites, fired from every angle. 'Da Quiet Man is here and he's turning up da volume!' said IDS, with one of those strangulated snarls that peter out like the end of the toothpaste tube.
Macho, slick and rather
moving,
- Verbe à particule (Base Vebale + adverbe) + préposition -> 1-4 (forme nominalisée en 4).
Voir aussi les rubriques consacrées à cette catégorie de phrasal verbs :
1 - The construction firm Costain yesterday played down fears that British companies could miss out on contracts to rebuild Iraqi infrastructure.
Costain hopeful of Iraq work,
2 - For Scott Schlageter, 35, an American procurement manager for the Saudi air force, it was just another expat's night in Riyadh. He was watching an Antonio Banderas thriller, curled up on the sofa in his home in al-Jadawel, a gated town-house complex in the Saudi Arabian capital. Suddenly the lights died, and the TV zapped off. Schlageter saw a flash and felt a thundering explosion that blew out all his windows. "I grabbed my cell phone, went upstairs to a secure room, called the U.S. embassy and told them we were under attack", he says. A vehicle loaded with explosives had blown up at the gates of the compound. At that very moment, similar assaults were under way in two other residential areas. Six and a half km away, at a complex that housed dozens of Americans employed by Vinell Corp. to help train the Saudi National Guard, a pair of cars were on a deadly mission. The first, a Ford Crown Victoria sedan filled with terrorists armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles, sped up to the compound's security checkpoint. The men mowed down the guards and removed a 1-m-high steel barrier taht protected the compound.
Why
the war on terror will never end:
3 - 'The last time we listened to the myth and the delusion that the Labour Party's problem is that it's not left-wing enough was a disaster. 'That's why you mustn't slip back. That's why you don't back down, you get on with it. 'The only reason that the Labour Party got off its knees from where it was in the 1980s was because we were prepared to address the modern world. And if we give up on that, it would be just a catastrophic mistake. And if we think that the public is going to thank us if we just back away from all these difficult decisions, they won't.' Don't look back, (Tony Blair interview), O, 28.9.2003,https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/sep/28/ interviews.tonyblair
4 - But stopping treatment quickly can cause very similar symptoms to those they are meant to stop, such as anxiety and insomnia. Patients have to be weaned off. Benzos are also regularly used by drug abusers, often to chill out on the club scene, with people coming down off acid, speed or ecstasy. Addicts extract liquid from temazepam capsules and inject it as a substitute for heroin. This is highly dangerous, as the liquid can block veins and lead to amputations. Cut down on tranquilliser prescriptions, GPs warned :Chief medical officer plans dosage crackdown to reduce dependence, G, 11.2.2004, https://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/feb/11/ mentalhealth.drugs
The Guardian Educ@guardian p. 8 20 June 2006
The Guardian Weekend p. 108 19 November 2005
The Guardian p. 11 15 April 2006
The Guardian p. 14 14 November 2005
Senior Tories prepare for defeat Party fears Frontbenchers discuss post-election tactics and future of leader The Guardian p. 5 4 May 2005
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/may/04/
Explosion in Kabul, Casualties Reported
July 4, 2006
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- An explosion went off in front of a cinema near the presidential palace in central Kabul on Tuesday, and casualties were reported, police said. The cinema lies by a traffic circle about 200 yards from the heavily fortified official residence of President Hamid Karzai. Police official Mohammed Akbar said there were casualties but did not provide further details. The cause of the blast was also not immediately clear. A local shopkeeper, Mohammed Ali, said the explosion had gone off inside a car. Police blocked roads to the scene of the blast. Explosion in
Kabul, Casualties Reported, NYT, 4.7.2006,
Check in,
log on, fork
out others charge large amounts for a service that can cost them as little as 11p a day to provide
Friday June 30, 2006 Check in, log on,
fork out, G, 30.6.2006,
New Orleans braces as Hurricane Katrina bears down
Sun Aug 28, 2005
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (Reuters) - Shopkeepers sandbagged galleries and stores in the French Quarter of the vulnerable Gulf Coast city of New Orleans and workers boarded up city hall as Hurricane Katrina churned across Gulf waters. New Orleans braces as Hurricane Katrina bears down, R, 28.8.2005, http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-08-28T050207Z_01_HO481242_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-WEATHER-KATRINA-DC.XML
G8 hammers out debt relief deal for poor nations
Sat Jun 11, 2005 12:19 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - The world's wealthiest countries agreed
on Saturday to write off more than $40 billion of impoverished nations' debts in
a drive to free Africa from hunger and disease. Headline and first §§, R, 11.6.2005, http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-06-11T161926Z_01_N11692122_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-GROUP1-DC.XML
Gill flies out as the Glazers move in
The Manchester United chief executive David Gill flew to Florida yesterday to decide whether he wants to implement Malcolm Glazer's aggressive new business plan on the day when the American billionaire began his reign by installing his sons Joel, Bryan and Avram on the club's board. The choice facing Gill is stark and, if he believes that
the plan by Glazer, which involves about £800m of borrowing, is unworkable, the
United chief executive will have to resign and leave the club in the hands of
its new American owners. Headline and first
§§, I, 8.6.2005,
Newsweek apologized yesterday for printing a small item on May 9 about reported
desecration of the Koran by American guards at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, an item
linked to riots in Pakistan and Afghanistan that led to the deaths of at least
17 people. But the magazine, while acknowledging possible errors in the article,
stopped short of retracting it.
Newsweek Apologizes for Report of Koran Insult, NYT,
16.5.2005,
Compass cooks up share buyback plan to save boss
COMPASS GROUP, the embattled contract-catering giant, is drawing up plans to sell businesses and return funds to shareholders in an attempt to fend off an investor revolt. Headline and §1,
ToS, 1.5.2005,
Iraq anger could let in Tories - PM
Under ferocious pressure over how he took Britain to war in Iraq and facing calls for a full inquiry from the Liberal Democrats, Tony Blair has hit back by warning that those trying to "send me a message" will let in [ in particule adverbiale ] scores of Tory MPs in [ in préposition ] marginal constituencies across Britain. Source à préciser.
Police appealed last night for the mother of a baby placed inside a pillowcase and abandoned in parkland to come forward. Abandoned
baby found in bushes, G, 29.3.2005,
Can't get up? Wake up and find the Clocky
It looks annoying, like a furry swiss roll on wheels. Even its name is irritating: Clocky. But that's nothing compared with what it does. Clocky is surely the most infuriating wake-up call ever devised.
Dreamt up [ participe passé ] by a scientist at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it works like this: You hit the snooze
button because you are desperate for a few more minutes' sleep. Clocky then
rolls off the bedside table and wheels around the bedroom floor bumping into
things, before settling on a place to hide.
Headline, G, 26.3.2005,
Jack Elrod Created by Ed Dodd in 1946 6 November 2004 http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/mtrail/about.htm
U.S. Troops Move to Rein in Rebels in North of Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 16 - The American military raced Tuesday to contain a spreading insurgency, sending hundreds of soldiers and armored vehicles into the streets of Mosul to root out bands of rebels who commandeered parts of the city last week as the Americans were battling their way through Falluja.
Headline and §1, NYT,
17.11.2004,
Burial site prepared as Arafat clings on
Bulldozers began clearing a site for Yasser Arafat's burial yesterday inside the Ramallah compound that was effectively his prison for the past two years, as France's prime minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, said the Palestinian president was in his "final hours".
Headline, G, 11.11.2004,
Time to step aside
In a balanced, multi-party parliamentary democracy, Ralph Nader would have been a candidate for secular sainthood. He forced consumer protection - physical and financial - on to the public agenda in the 1960s, saving thousands of lives and billions of dollars. He championed freedom of information laws that declared that public records belong to the people, not to those who compile them. His focus on corporate kleptocracy led to reforms - albeit temporary - in political campaign finance.
Headline and §1, G,
20.10.2004,
The worldwide Anglican church attempted to stave off disintegration over the issue of homosexuality among the clergy last night with a desperate plea for both sides to express regret and seek ways of coexistence.
Report on gay clergy pleads for
tolerance, G, 19.10.2004,
Muslims must reach out and connect with other Britons as equal citizens, and resist the impulse to withdraw into isolated communities, one of the foremost thinkers on Islam in Europe will tell his audience this evening at the European Social Forum in London.
Muslims urged to embrace their role in the west : With 20,000 participants,
Online shopping mart says it is difficult to root out all rip-offs
Sharks target bargain-hungry surfers, sub, G, 16.10.2004,
A trip to the fair, then a shot rings out and Danielle, 14, is dead
Girl caught in hail of bullets is latest victim of Nottingham's gun culture Headline and sub,
G, 11.10.2004,
Ian Brown: Turn on, tune in, chill out
Despite the end of The Stone Roses, a jail term and a dislike of making money, Ian Brown has prospered, finds Andy Gill Headline and sub, I, 8.10.2004,
Take a break or burn out, jockeys warned
Worried BHB calls for action over crushing workloads
Headline and sub, G,
22.9.2004,
October 1, 2004 -- President Bush and John Kerry faced off last night in 2004's first presidential debate, trading nonstop blows over whether it was right to go to war in Iraq. Kerry was on the attack from the start and never let up, charging President Bush made a "colossal error of judgment" in attacking Iraq — but Bush shot back that the United States is safer without Saddam Hussein.
FOES POUND EACH OTHER, USA Today, 1.10.2004,
As he steps down as Britain's head film censor, Robin Duval looks back on a controversial career that gave us more freedom to make our own minds up My life of porn and violence,
O, 19.9.2004,
100 square miles of Peak District moor, heath and mountain to be opened up as Countryside Act rolls out across England and Wales
Walkers ready to claim their
right to roam, G, 31.8.2004,
COULD CLONE DOCTOR BRING BACK THE DEAD?
A MAVERICK scientist's attempt to clone dead people sparked outrage yesterday. Panos Zavos claims to have implanted the DNA from three corpses into living cow's eggs. Among them was an 11-year-old girl called Cady who was killed in a car crash.
Could
clone doctor bring back the dead?, Mi, 30.8.2004,
Red tape cut to free up funds
Gordon Brown today announced a package of measures that promised additional investment across the board in public services for the next three years.
Headline and sub, G, 12.7.2004,
Chinese PM makes national appeal to head off pandemic
Call to action as UN warns 10m could be infected in country by 2010 The Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, has marked the first international Aids conference to be held in Asia by making an unprecedented direct appeal to his fellow Chinese to help stop the spread of the disease.
Headline, sub and §1, 12.7.2004,
Tysor believes astro funerals are starting to catch on. The potential market is huge. In the US alone about 650,000 people are cremated every year and 1.8m buried in coffins - generating a total of close to $10bn a year for the funeral industry. The rising proportion of people opting for cremation rather than burial should also help. "More people are choosing to sprinkle the ashes of their loved ones in several different places that the deceased enjoyed - a golf course, local forest or into space - so you don't have to commit to just one place," says Tysor. "This is obviously much harder when someone is not cremated."
Crossing the final frontier, FT,
9.7.2004,
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer
The lethal spread of the HIV/Aids pandemic across the globe is speeding up, in spite of intensifying efforts on the part of UN agencies, the US, Britain and other European governments to turn the tide. A record five million people were infected by the virus last year and nearly three million died. The UN's latest bi-annual report on the state of the pandemic made it plain yesterday that the HIV virus that causes Aids is defeating man's best efforts to contain it. There are 38 million people carrying the virus, sub-Saharan Africa is being devastated, and the fastest spread is in Asia and eastern Europe.
Aids defeating world's best
efforts as record numbers are infected, G, 7.7.2004,
Henman withers away
Another great Wimbledon tradition continued today as Tim Henman succumbed to a display of controlled aggression from the unseeded Croatian Mario Ancic, losing the quarter final in straight sets 7-6, 6-4, 6-2. After coping admirably with the booming service game of Mark Philippoussis during his fourth round match, Henman wilted in the face of Ancic's combined assault of hostile serves and sharp returns. After the defeat, Henman admitted that time was catching up with him. "I have never hidden behind the fact that this is the one tournament which I would love to win the most, but the reality is that I don't have an endless number of years of chances and I felt this was a good opportunity," he said. Henman struggled through the first set, losing a tie break 7-5, and though showed some resilience in the second, he was a sorry shadow of himself by the third set, and no amount of enthusiastic support from Centre Court - which was silenced when Ancic broke Henman's serve to love in the third game - could raise a hint of a dramatic comeback. Headline and first §§, G, 30.6.2004, http://sport.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4960453-113260,00.html
One in four students have copied and pasted material from the internet into an essay and passed it off as their own work, a survey from the plagiarism watchdog revealed today.
Quarter of students
'plagiarise essays', G, 30.6.2004,
Goldman ratchets up row with Rose
Investment bank brushes off Marks & Spencer chief's deadline for retraction of 'damaging' allegation Headline and §1,
G, 29.6.2004,
US lashes out in Fallujah as new leader Allawi defies insurgents
The US military angrily lashed out yesterday with an air strike on an alleged "safehouse" of insurgents in Fallujah believed to be behind co-ordinated attacks across Iraq. Headline and §1,
I, 26.6.2004,
Official: Police still haven't rooted out racism
Institutional racism is still rife in police forces across Britain five years after the inquiry into the death of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, which ordered senior officers to root it out. A report from the Commission for Racial Equality to be published tomorrow will show that all but one of the 43 forces and authorities in England and Wales are failing in their legal duty towards ethnic communities. The results will be devastating for the police, still struggling to recruit non-white officers and win the confidence of Britain's ethnic communities. CRE chairman Trevor Phillips set up the inquiry after the BBC made an undercover documentary, The Secret Policeman, which revealed a culture of racism at Bruche police training centre near Warrington. In one scene a recruit wearing a Ku Klux Klan-style hood acted out how he would beat up an Asian.
Headline and first §§, O, 13.6.2004,
The Queen, Prime Minister Tony Blair and Baroness Thatcher led the tributes that continued to pour in for the former US president Ronald Reagan, who has died at the age of 93. Tributes for ex-president Reagan, PA, 6.6.2004.
A COFFIN-shaped "smokers' booth" has been placed outside an
office block in a bid to scare away
cigarette users.
Boss's deadly warning to
smokers, Manchester News, 8.10.2003,
The internet entrepreneur who "sexed up" the US government is to clean up his act. The owner of the pornography website Whitehouse.com, one of the internet's most accidentally visited addresses, is selling up and shutting down. After years of fielding complaints from parents angry that innocuous school assignments have led their children into the clutches of smut-peddlers, Dan Parisi is moving on out of concern for his own young son.
Political porn site does the
adult thing, G, 10.2.2004,
Mydoom isn't the first mass-mailing virus of the year. Earlier this month, a worm called "Bagle" infected computers but seemed to die out quickly. So far, it's too early to say whether Mydoom will continue to be a problem or peter out, experts said New e-mail worm spreads across Internet,
AP / I, 27.1.2004,
Gates aims to wipe out spam as UK broadband users unwittingly help the spammers
Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, used a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos to promise to rid the world of spam, or junk e-mails, within two years. His optimism contrasts with others in the industry who fret that the explosion in unsolicited e-mail could gum up the internet completely. And it will need to be matched with sophisticated software as spammers get ever more sophisticated. Tens of thousands of Britons have broadband PCs that have been infected with viruses that turn them into machines able to pump out thousands of junk e-mails every day without the owner ever knowing, industry experts are warning. Virus-writers appear to have teamed up with spammers to create a "zombie network" of broadband PCs around the world which are used to push out spam - including fraudulent and pornographic messages - round the clock. As much as 10 per cent could be British machines because there is a comparatively high number of home broadband users in the UK. (...) The US Federal Trade Commission is warning that one-third of all spam comes from such infected machines. In the UK, the e-commerce minister Stephen Timms has admitted that, despite the government's encouragement that people take up broadband, it has no idea how many machines are infected and being used to generate spam. Headline and first
§§, I, 26.1.2004,
Elderly couple die after gas cut off
Campaigners are calling for a change in the law after the decomposed bodies of an elderly couple were discovered in their home - weeks after the gas supply had been cut off.
Headline and §1, G, 23.12.2003,
Ulster turmoil as Paisley roars back
The Rev Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein emerged triumphant yesterday from Northern Ireland's electoral combat, leaving the centre parties grievously wounded and the Good Friday Agreement in jeopardy.
Headline and §1, I,
29.11.2003,
I'm fine: PM laughs off new health problem
Tony Blair last night brushed aside renewed concern about his health and joked that "some Guardian readers may sleep more happily" as a result - but others would not. As he headed off to launch his "conversation with the nation" the prime minister appeared relaxed and energetic as he made light of overnight reports that doctors had been called in to examine him after he suffered stomach pains on Wednesday. Headline and first §§, G, 28.11.2003, http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,1095119,00.html
Microsoft runs search for a way to take over internet giant Google Headline, G, 1.11.2003,
The United Nations General Assembly has demanded that Israel halt building work on a barrier jutting deep into the West Bank and pull down the section already built. Pull down West Bank wall, UN tells Israel, PA, 22.10.2003.
As police roll out anti-gun crime tactics, an 'Independent' survey shows how widespread the use of firearms has become Photo caption, web frontpage, I, 11.10.2003.
Warriors rip Saints apart
St Helens' reign as Super League champions was brought to a shuddering halt when they were mercilessly ripped apart, going down 40-24 to form team Wigan in front of a play-off record crowd of 21,790 at the JJB Stadium. Headline and §1, PA, 4.10.2003.
Warriors hold off Warrington
Wigan held off a spirited challenge from Warrington to win 25-12 in a play-off thriller to set up a mouth-watering semi-final showdown with reigning champions St Helens at the JJB Stadium next Friday. Headline and §1, PA, 28.9.2003.
Tigers see off Newcastle
Leicester came back from 18-3 down to score 20 points in a spellbinding 10 minutes and win 28-21 against a resurgent Newcastle side who had skipper Mark Andrews sin-binned at Welford Road in the Zurich Premiership. Headline and §1, PA, 27.9.2003.
Frank Bruno was once a world champion and Britain loved him. But after he hung up his gloves his life fell apart. Richard Williams on the decline of a prizefighter (...) And for once the facade of hype and stereotype - Bruno as cuddly bruiser, Bruno as pantomime dame, Bruno as comic character available for quiz shows and general banter ("Know what I mean, 'arry?") - fell away. (...) This was a long way from the mood of the night at Wembley stadium six months earlier, when he held off Oliver McCall to win the World Boxing Council belt. (...) When he was knocked down after 12 seconds of the opening round, it seemed that he would become the latest fighter to be destroyed by a man who seemed, at that stage, to be a force of nature. To his credit, Bruno got up and eventually landed a left hook that made him one of only four men to launch a blow that genuinely rocked the pre-gaol Tyson. But after five rounds of increasingly devastating punishment, a combination of punches to the head and body finally put him down for the count. (...) Predictably, Bruno took an even worse beating. Having pulled himself together and fought creditably in the first two rounds, he fell apart under Tyson's assault in the third. A left hook paralysed his legs, two similar blows brought down his hands, and from then on Tyson was able to smash his fists into the champion's face until the referee stepped between them and lifted the American's arms. And that, thank goodness, was the end for Bruno. At the age of 34, he took off his gloves and felt the sting of an icepack for the last time. He made $6m for his final night's work, against Tyson's $30m. (...) The first time Bruno had lost to Tyson, hundreds turned up to greet him at Heathrow airport. (...) It should have been a biggie. Instead, over the course of five rounds, what happened was the total emotional disintegration of a man who had, in his previous encounter with Lewis at Wembley Arena, knocked him out with a single punch in the first round. Zoned out, McCall stood there, an unforgettable sight with his fists hanging, tears streaming down his face. It said everything, but mostly that he just couldn't do this any more. Later it turned out McCall had been having problems with crack addiction.
Subheadline and paragraphs, On the ropes,
FTSE Index claws back lost ground
London's FTSE 100 Index clawed back some ground after earlier sliding below the important 4200 mark on fears over oil prices. Headline and first paragraph, PA, 25.9.2003.
Bush covers up climate research
White House officials play down its own scientists' evidence of global warming
Headline / subheadline, O, 21.9.2003,
A few hours later, soon after midnight, Toni-Ann was dead, executed. Her age? Just seven. She was with her father, a convicted drugs dealer, in his bedsit in Kensal Green, north London, when his assailant came calling. As he fired several shots into Mr Byfield's body, the little girl ran away screaming. The gunmen (sic) had a decision. Let her live, and risk identification. So he shot her, once, in the back, as neighbours heard her scream her last, and made good his escape. And so Toni-Ann enters the record books, believed to be the youngest ever victim of Britain's burgeoning gang wars and the country's gun culture epidemic. And what makes it all the more shocking is that she was no accidental victim, a bystander caught upparticipe passé in a drive-by shooting. She was instead targeted. And picked off.
Shot dead by a callous killer,
Seven months after Dolly the cloned sheep was put down, stuffed and exhibited in a Scottish museum, the company that created her is to get much the same treatment from its accountants. PPL Therapeutics, whose "nuclear transfer" technology once promised flocks of genetically modified sheep producing life-saving drugs in their milk, is to be wound up. It admitted yesterday that it had failed to get the backing of shareholders for a scaled-down business plan. Geoff Cook, the chief executive who was brought in two years ago to turn round the biotech group, could not persuade investors that the company has a future focusing on one remaining product, Fibrin I, a glue he believes could help stop bleeding during surgery. Goodbye Dolly: PPL puts itself up for sale, minus sheep, I, p. 17, 16.9.2003.
Taoiseach rules out abortion legislation move after defeat
Headline,
IT, 8.3.2002,
Police in Birmingham made 43 arrests last night and early this morning as sporadic violence broke out in several areas of the city in the wake of Monday's rioting in the Handsworth district, which left two people dead and missing.
On This Day, The Times,
An asteroid large enough to wipe out a continent could collide with the Earth in 11 years, astronomers said yesterday. (...) Astronomers have given it a value of one on the Torino scale, which grades the potential risk to the Earth from zero, signifying no danger, to ten, meaning a catastrophic collision of the sort that wiped out the dinosaurs. Earth could be on course for asteroid collision, T, p. 9, 3.9.2003.
We can "see" things that we have experienced in the past, and we can also conjure up things we have never seen. Reading a novel can conjure up mental images of different worlds, for example.
Will fact match fiction as
scientists start work on thinking robot?
Directly attacking the BBC's defence correspondent, Andrew Gilligan, Mr Campbell denied Mr Gilligan's allegation that he had "sexed up" the government's earlier September dossier on weapons of mass destruction by inserting, against intelligence advice, the claim that Iraq could have weapons of mass destruction ready within 45 minutes. (...) Far from sexing it up he had "actually sexed it down in places". Campbell claims BBC lied over Iraq 'dodgy dossier', GI, p. 1, 26.6.2003.
In the dossier, Mr Blair warned that Saddam was able to launch chemical or biological attacks within 45 minutes. BBC Radio 4's Today programme quoted an unnamed "senior British official" as saying the claim was included against the wishes of intelligence officers, who had been ordered to "sex up" a drier draft version of the document. Government blames spies over war, I, p. 1, 30.5.2003.
"I'm just living out the American dream" American Life, Madonna.
Children are taking in alarming amounts of salt without even realising it, in processed foods and even staples such as bread and cornflakes. Child health alert on salt in food, DM, p. 1, 15.5.2003.
Find out how coalition supply trucks are defending themselves from Iraqi attack Frontpage box, War in the Gulf, GE, 4.4.2003.
In case of fire, get out, stay out, call 999. (...) - Put out cigarettes and candles properly. - Switch things off if they're not in use, especially at night. - Keep matches and lighters away from children.
Fire
kills, you can prevent it, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister ad,
Daniela Rossel's photographs of Mexico's wealthy women are seen by some as an affront to the majority of the population that struggles to get by. Photo caption, NYT / Le Monde, p. 1, 6.10.2002.
But after careful consideration, I decided that the high-water mark of presidential discourse was probably Ronald Reagan’s Berlin address of June 12, 1987, in front of the Brandenburg Gate, in which the president appealed to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to dismantle the Berlin Wall. In the most memorable line of the speech, Reagan declared: “General-Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”
A clarion call for freedom,
"Then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in!". The three little pigs / Kubrick's Shining.
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