• Early research involved a colleague lying in a deckchair in the night-time open air with a piece of string to measure the meteors, while he observed electromagnetic signals on a cathode-ray tube in a nearby hut.

    ECONOMIST: Bernard Lovell | The

  • Having worked hard as a team, made new friends and completed a task in the open air, despite the cold, figured high on the list of positives.

    BBC: Education & Family

  • Speaking without a permit, in the open air, is another matter: Mr Chee has been prosecuted for that.

    ECONOMIST: Future trends: On the loose in Singapore | The

  • The single 120mm shell landed on a stall in the packed open-air market just before noon leaving Muslims and Serbs dead and injured.

    BBC: 5 February

  • The result is both classic and design-forward in the lobby, puffy white sofas sit on marble floors in front of moss-covered walls and a screen projecting abstract images that are undoubtedly sentimental to him: Pigozzo grew up mere blocks away and played as a child in the open-air courtyard that became this glamorous lobby.

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  • There is no sign to mark it, just a sprawl of heavy, dark, tropical hardwood left to dry and age in the sun and a couple of half-finished canoes in front of the open-air shed where he does his work.

    BBC: A tale of the South Pacific

  • The Northern Ireland Office planned a big open-air party in the grounds of Stormont, the seat of the Assembly, to celebrate the queen's Jubilee.

    ECONOMIST: Politics in Northern Ireland: All shook up | The

  • People stroll the riverbanks, listening to live music, and pause for a drink in one of the many open-air cafes.

    BBC: Rhine on path to recovery

  • He said that rather than the usual open air stage in a muddy field, the Henley Festival was "a little village" with enclosures inherited from the regatta the previous week.

    BBC: Why does Henley-on-Thames do festivals so well?

  • This year the centenary is being celebrated with a range of events, including a massive open-air performance in June as part of the Derry-Londonderry City of Culture 2013.

    BBC: Pipes calling for a new centenary Danny Boy song

  • Mariela Lopez, the newborn who received the treatment in March, slept on the chilled blanket in her open-air incubator in the intensive care nursery wearing a white hat and covered with only a clear plastic sheet.

    WSJ: Hypothermia Cure for Babies: Cooling Infants to Battle Brain Damage

  • Simon Clark, director of Forest, which campaigns against smoking bans, believes the New York initiative is "ludicrous" and that there is no evidence that anyone is at risk as a result of someone else smoking in the open air.

    BBC: New York's outdoor smoking ban: Will the world follow?

  • But, if you listen to the disgruntled Yelpers, you might be deterred from a rare experience: mini-golf and beer as a prelude to fresh cold oysters and perfectly steamed lobster, eaten in the open, relatively salty air, with a killer view of New York Harbor.

    NEWYORKER: Brooklyn Crab

  • Rumors on the street and in the local press were that security officials were worried of a possible terrorist attack against Obama in open air in light of the UN Security Council resolution against Libya on Thursday.

    FORBES: Rubber Bullets Fly at Anti-Obama Protest In Rio

  • The crowd had gathered in the open air, beneath a huge stars-and-stripes and giant white letters reading: Vote Now.

    BBC: The hurricane stealing the candidates' thunder

  • Teams have found a number of open spaces and air pockets in the WTC's basement areas, and they hope they will find survivors in similar areas.

    CNN: Bush lifts sanctions against India, Pakistan

  • By the 17th century, the walls of the court were painted with a noisome cocktail of ox-blood, ox-gall, lamp black and a bucket of urine: soon afterwards, tennis became unfashionable and all but disappeared to be revived as a modified, open-air sport, in the wake of the invention of the lawn-mower, by Major Wingfield in the 1870s.

    ECONOMIST: History of the net

  • Switzerland's previous radical experiment with drugs when the police turned a blind eye to open-air drug markets in Zurich and Bern ended in chaos in 1995 when the places became the haunts of drug users and pushers from across Europe.

    ECONOMIST: Drugs in Switzerland

  • Next is the Lotus Mahal, a symmetrical open-air pavilion which is one of the best preserved sites in Hampi.

    BBC: Escape from Goa: Hampi and the ruins of Vijayanagara

  • In the open-air cafes on a warm summer's evening, Bulgarians are sipping their own cooling drinks and refreshing cocktails.

    BBC: British entrepreneurs invest in Bulgaria

  • As happened a decade or so ago, the airlines flying in the open air fear unfair competition from those flying under the protection of the courts.

    ECONOMIST: Going, going…. | The

  • The crisis began in August when 528 cubic metres (116, 000 gallons) of toxic liquid unloaded from a ship called the Proba Koala were dumped in 11 open-air sites in residential areas around the commercial capital, Abidjan.

    ECONOMIST: A toxic-waste scandal shows up the country's fragility

  • Bringing the outside in and the inside out even fleetingly can make a house feel like an open-air paradise.

    FORBES: 8 Incredible Open-Air Homes

  • Cruising down the river from one campsite to the next, looking up between oar strokes to ogle the canyon walls, is the outdoorsy equivalent of riding around a new city in an open-air tour bus.

    WSJ: The Grand Canyon's Secret Network

  • Bobby V was going to open a window, and let the fresh air rush right in.

    WSJ: Bobby Valentine: Back to School��Jason Gay

  • Later in the day, we came across a group of locals gathered at an open-air bar to pay tribute to a deceased loved one, swigging from small buckets to drown their sorrows after the funeral.

    BBC: The gateway to Kilimanjaro

  • Away from the monsoon summer months, typically June to September, open air venues are also a great way to catch indie acts in the city.

    BBC: India��s indie music scene

  • Covering an area of 75 acres, this huge open-air museum was established in 1891 to recreate the atmosphere of a provincial Swedish town from the early 19th century.

    BBC: Stockholm��s enduring style

  • Ian Lipkin, a Columbia researcher who was an author on the Science paper, says his bee work could provide "a road map for addressing outbreaks of infectious disease" like SARS. Metagenomics could also open a window on the invisible microbes, still undiscovered, that live in the earth, air and sea.

    FORBES: Can Genomics Save The Bees?

  • Thousands of people have attended the three-day open-air festival since it began in 2000, offering a mix of opera, musical theatre and Welsh language music.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | North West Wales | ?100,000 grant for music festival

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