The smells of freshly made pastry, noodle soup and stir fry hang in the air.

BBC: Reliving Shanghai��s 1930s past

With Chavez off the stage in Venezuela, a number of questions hang in the air.

CNN: Chavez empowered the poor, divided a nation

They hang in the air, suspended as everyone is at this time of national woe, just as Americans were when the song first came out.

NPR: An Old Song For A New Depression

Tony Wright, chairman of the Commons public administration committee says the government's critics often want complaints to "hang in the air" rather than to be investigated properly.

BBC: Steel boss blasts 'naive' Blair

It was his equalizer on 30 minutes which caught the eye, his ability to hang in the air and generate an unfathomable amount of power to head the ball into the net remains a joy to behold.

CNN: Real held in Champions League blockbuster

He lets the words just kind of hang there in the air.

NPR: Long Desired, Streetcar Returns to New Orleans

Flying at the end of 60-foot control lines, they generate enough lift to launch a sailor 40 feet in the air, with hang times that make the sea-level surfers green with envy.

FORBES: Wing and a Prayer

Angelo d'Arrigo, the Italian hang-glider known as the "Human Condor" who was killed in an air crash in March, was posthumously given the alternative sportsperson's award.

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Besides various technical problems, such as getting enough standardised equipment to different airports, persuading grumpy passengers trundling off a long-haul flight to hang around for testing is hard, even when they are rewarded with air miles, as they were in the South African study.

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