• The rest walk from downtown to the neighborhoods, scattering in all directions across bridges, through underpasses, beneath trestles, up hills to dark residential streets, solitary figures beneath thought bubbles of warm breath and cigarette smoke.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Citizen Vince'

  • They live in a scattering of villages in Switzerland, Austria and northern Italy, and some still speak the Walser German dialect.

    BBC: Hiking the Alpine Walserweg trail

  • Those who implacably oppose war will use these civilian loses to paint America as a mindless behemoth scattering bodies in its wake.

    WSJ: Gut Time

  • Electricity can move along them with little resistance, and without electrons scattering off in other directions as they do in metal wires.

    FORBES: IBM Makes Molecule-Sized Light

  • "This is how the sheen colouration is generated, without the occurrence of coherent scattering like in 'traditional' structural feathers, " says Dr Galvan.

    BBC: Earth News - Birds unveil 'silver wings'

  • Trees start scattering their pollen in early spring, followed by grasses, and then ragweed kicks in during the summer and runs through fall.

    CNN: Predicting allergy season eludes experts

  • Sao Paulo (CNN) -- A Brazilian woman has confessed to shooting her husband, dismembering him and scattering the parts in a wooded area outside Sao Paulo, police said on Wednesday.

    CNN: Police: Brazilian woman kills, dismembers husband

  • Nat Fraser allegedly removed her teeth, jewellery and other personal effects which might identify her before scattering the remains somewhere in Scotland.

    BBC: Arlene murder trial charges

  • Cluster bombs open in flight, scattering smaller bomblets.

    BBC: Syria conflict: General 'defects to rebels'

  • What is new about Dr Cinzano's research, which is about to be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, is that he and his colleagues have managed to take account of the effects of back-scattering by clouds and dust in the atmosphere, as well as the effects of the original sources of the light themselves.

    ECONOMIST: Going, going, nearly gone

  • In India, electric crematoriums, which are cheaper than the elaborate ritual of the funeral pyre, are becoming increasingly popular, while in China ash-scattering-at-sea is becoming all the rage.

    ECONOMIST: The world��s way of death

  • The scattering changed the momentum of the electrons in a way that depends on their original orbital position.

    ECONOMIST: Small-scale physics

  • They obey each other's directions as if playing a game, two men hopping about in the dead grass, scattering glowing pine needles like sparks.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Woodsburner'

  • The camp, which he bought from the Molson family in 2000, is a scattering of four white clapboard buildings on 5, 000 acres at the mouth of the little-known Godbout River.

    FORBES: The Other Bronfman

  • In the south Israel's scattering of hundreds of thousands of unexploded cluster bomblets has hampered reconstruction, as well as farmers' access to their fields.

    ECONOMIST: Lebanon after the war

  • The many verses don't yield one tidy, linear tale: As happens on several of his new songs, Dylan free-associates, scattering disparate notions wildly and then seeking meaning in the array.

    NPR: As Dylan Walks, His Mind Wanders

  • In contrast, we exploit the scattering.

    CNN: A camera that can see around corners

  • In the crowd there's a scattering of tats, beanies and sculpted beards that you might think belong more on Occupy Wall Street than a Republican rally.

    BBC: Iowa Republican votes still up for grabs

  • In the case of Sir Martin, the misunderstanding was over who first came up with the idea that the gamma rays in bursts are generated by inverse Compton scattering.

    ECONOMIST: More on gamma-ray bursts

  • Turns out scattering databases among local servers leads to lots of problems in managing and accessing information.

    FORBES: A tale of two companies

  • Among dozens of tweets in recent weeks, there are only a scattering of references to the girlfriend he is now accused of killing earlier Thursday.

    NPR: Runner's Twitter Feed Is A Long Victory Lap

  • Usually the scattering of energy is considered a nuisance -- whether driving in fog or poor reception from a cell phone tower -- and most techniques either try to avoid it (by turning on fog lights) or reduce the impact of scattering (by selecting energy for the phone only from direct paths).

    CNN: A camera that can see around corners

  • And on a postcard balanced on the edge of the table, in pencil, he scribbled a few hurried words to me, scattering exclamation points and expressing his delight and his love for the world.

    NEWYORKER: See the Other Side

  • Begin your trip in the small, German-influenced capital of Windhoek, with its scattering of historic buildings.

    BBC: A long road trip along Namibia��s coast

  • The municipality of Philipstown is composed of a scattering of villages and hamlets along the Hudson River, about fifty miles north of Manhattan in Putnam County.

    NEWYORKER: Fox Among the Chickens

  • The plane came down during bad weather in the village of Hussain Abad on the outskirts of Islamabad on Friday evening, scattering debris over a wide area.

    BBC: Pakistan begins new plane inspections after crash

  • In his spare time he trained his instincts by field-stripping old watches, scattering the pieces, and teaching himself to put them back together like a jigsaw puzzle.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The last period when Cuba and the United States exchanged friendly gestures ended in 1996, after Cuba shot down two light aircraft, killing four Cuban-Americans who had been scattering leaflets over Havana.

    ECONOMIST: Cuba

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