But when Zora signals that she has detected explosives in a locked chest in one villager's house, there are grim faces all around and time stands still for us too.

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That (as Einstein showed) means that from the particle's point of view time stands still and space contracts to nothingness.

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While the smoking population is half what it was a generation ago in the U.S. and other industrialized nations, with only one in five using tobacco, it's different in Africa and East Asia, where time stands still when it comes to cigarettes.

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And the search for the Holy Grail still stands up over time, even after The DaVinci Code changed the meaning of that term.

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Mr Romney would like to cap federal spending at 20% of GDP, an ambitious feat considering that it currently stands at 24% and is still projected to be at 23% in a decade's time.

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