Still, many Mac enthusiasts were overjoyed at the prospect of annihilating their pocket protectors full of electronic devices.

NPR: Apple's CEO Shows Off Its Long-Awaited iPhone

Colliding and annihilating Wimps ought to produce showers of these electrons and positrons.

BBC: Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to release first results

But Somalia's lawlessness is visible in the booming charcoal trade, which is annihilating what's left of the country's trees.

ECONOMIST: Canny traders adapt to anarchy

Eastwood long ago gave up celebrating men of violence: the mysterious, annihilating Westerners and the vigilantes who think that they alone know how to mete out justice.

NEWYORKER: The Man in Charge

By November, it will be fully operational, a University of Kentucky basketball team deploying the planet-annihilating skills of the single greatest recruiting class in the sport's 100-plus-year history.

WSJ: Kentucky Basketball's New Death Star

Moreover, they also point out that there should be a second signal from annihilating dark matter, in the form of gamma rays coming from the Milky Way's halo.

ECONOMIST: Two new ways to detect the elusive stuff of the universe

After sneaking over the line in the opener at Headingley, England have stepped up their game, annihilating South Africa at Trent Bridge on Tuesday and now winning with almost as much ease in south London.

BBC: England win seals one-day series

Of the two celebrity speakers this week on the subject, Bill Gates missed the Net completely, then tried to make up for lost ground with the usual Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people) policy of annihilating anyone ahead of them.

FORBES: A Net Uncertain