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Once you pick it up, it's hard to put down, as my staff reminds me again and again. I figured they would settle it, given how ubiquitous the BlackBerry has become, but I was still bracing to go back to the Stone Ages without it.

During my lecture, we will look at evidence of tectonic shifts of the plates and talk about the consequences. We will go on a journey that begins in New Guinea where subcultures are being impacted by oil, timber and technology, all the stresses of a global economy. Although people are being forced out of the Garden of Eden, most are handling the transition from the Stone Age to modernity very well.

Dead men don't tell tales. We don't want a Lee Harvey Oswald here. We don't want an Oliver Stone movie. We don't want a Warren Commission report.

A prison made of steel and stone I can endure, and have endured, but never could I survive being locked away in one with walls made of fear and ghost for guards.

As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it's Bach. I love Paganini, too, the Italian composer who would break strings during a performance and finish playing on just one string. Someone I would have loved to play with is Jimi Hendrix.

The cables that hold up (the Brooklyn Bridge) on big stone piers are beautiful and not hidden. It's metal in your face ? taking traditional material and putting it to use in a way that you can see what it can do.

Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light

Back-to-back outright titles - it's pretty nice. It was one of our goals at the beginning of the year. Hopefully, it's just a stepping stone to bigger things.

Back in the Stone Age, before there were workshops, it was a very difficult idea to get into musical theatre. Normally, you would be a chorus girl or boy and write something. People would get their start as rehearsal pianists or dance assistants.

As long as they keep the exterior in the same stone so it looks similar, then we have no problem with that. And they are going to do that because I've seen the plans.

As long as any memorial put on the mountain is just a plaque or a stone with a name on it, I can't see any problem with that.

You pass the old L.A. County jail, which is surprisingly beautiful. It's got a handsome stone facade and stately columns. The new L.A. County jail - called The Twin Towers - isn't beautiful at all; it's a stucco panopticon the color of sick flesh.

This is going to be a good stepping stone into the regional playoffs. But I'm pretty sure we'll see Old Mill again.

This is a time to get better and we try to use this preseason as kind of a stepping stone to take short steps to be ready by the time the season comes around.

This is a stepping stone to bigger things hopefully. We'll celebrate it tonight. We needed the performance we've been talking about this week for the whole of the Six Nations and to put it in to win the Triple Crown feels good.

This is a stepping stone of the big picture.

This is a stepping stone for the big picture. It's going to ease (expectations) and I'm going to learn from today. I learned from Jim, watching him play. It's a step in the right direction.

This is a solid project that adds certainty to our production profile beyond 2007. The North Sea is important to our overall growth strategy, and Ettrick is a stepping stone to growing a sustainable business in this area.

This is not something etched in stone until the league makes a ruling. But we plan to give ourselves the best possible plan.

This is something that is not necessarily etched in stone until the league makes some kind of ruling about it, which I'm not even sure of. So we're not going to speculate on what we're going to do. We're just going to have to plan to give ourselves the best competitive advantage we possibly can.

This book is enough to make a stone weep and if anyone should read it they would think the writer was indeed in pathetic straits.

They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

They were in disbelief at the fatality at the end of a brilliantly concluded operation, ... We were stone silent as we waited to hear of the rest of what took place.

This guy Hartman is a stone cold liar. He's worse than me I mean, I know I'm a liar. If they're going to execute me for lying, they ought to strap him on the gurney right next to me. That Petro, too.

A lot of the people who come through here are repeat offenders and part of their problems are that they are having difficulty getting a job without a high school diploma. This new GED program is a stepping stone for them to start having a better life.

They don't come more glamorous than that. Our boys are looking good, we'll be up for it. This is another big stepping stone for the club.

They're basically gutting it out to the stone and starting over.

There's a lot of pressure to get things onto the calendar, and probably not everything that gets on the calendar is going to get approved. A lot of people who think they've rolled the stone to the top of the hill will find it rolling back down on them.

There's a tremendous amount of passion about this issue by family-business owners. On this, no stone is being left unturned.

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It's kind of bringing Oracle out of the Stone Age of a character mode interface into the modern world where you can actually see your tables in a Windows Explorer-style format.

It's just like lifting a stone and dropping it on one's own feet,

It's a stone tower with really nothing flashy about it, ... No fancy art, no expensive, you know, Chinese rugs. I mean it really is very discreet -- and very pedestrian.

It was awfully hard on my mother. She had trouble facing it, ... She was a farm girl and never hardly out this part country, but she went clear to California on a train to see what she could find out. They had services while she was out there, for her sake. They even had a plot in a soldiers' cemetery and had a stone for him there.

It was a stepping stone for us. The thing we have to do is to keep getting better.

It will be a huge improvement on Stone Avenue overall.

It's a wonderful device to be able to show the huge events in history this way. Sometimes it is the man in the street who drops the stone that causes the ripple which upsets the empire. I'm sure it's happening today as we speak.

It's a great first gig to launch our playing out. There's a lot more women who rock out than we see on the cover of Rolling Stone and SPIN.

It's a great feeling. It's great to be on the other side. The Philadelphia Eagles have been to the big games, and that's where we're trying to get to. This was another stepping stone to where we're trying to go.

I touch her hair. Her shoulders clench together and she stares at the ground. She looks like a stone bird. I am an iceberg. Everyday I float farther and farther out to sea. But that can't be. An iceberg feels no pain. An iceberg doesn't feel cold. I feel cold. I feel distant. There is no one. There is nothing. That's where I am. She won't look me in the eye anymore since I asked if I could kiss her. Even wanting turns her cold.

It's a huge stepping stone for this program to get that elite level where Washington basketball is mentioned with everyone else in the country.

For a novelist, the great thing about the Stone Age people is that we know virtually nothing about their beliefs - which means that I get to make it up! But it's still got to be plausible.

It's like dropping a stone into a pond, only in this case, the pond is the galaxy, and the wave is the compression of gas. Each wave represents a burst of star formation, with the youngest stars found in the outer ring.

It's going to be bad, they're not correcting a major problem for all the money they're spending on Stone Avenue.

It's funny as a brand Stone is Greg's idea. But Greg's not that way at all. He is a guy who is quick to smile and is not obnoxious at all.

You try to look at the present not the past. I think last week was just a stepping stone and I think it helped a little bit.

That's right. Our offense leans further left than Rolling Stone magazine. We know that defense is the Redskins' strength. And they know our offense is our strength. We'll have to strap our helmets on extra tight, and I guess we should wear our face shields since Sean Taylor will be playing.

Each one of you has struggled upward from the stone to a plant, From the plant to an animal, From the animal to a man,Do not slide into an animal.

Stone was the most prominent architect in America, and he decided that the modernist movement in architecture -- in other words, the parade of glass boxes that marched across America -- had become exhausted, not worth pursuing anymore,

Stone seems to have an attitude that he represents Temecula and Murrieta -- and the rest of the county and he doesn't have to make contact with.

Stone fruit would be more susceptible. They're in their infancy.

Stone County was hit pretty hard. I would say the Perkinston campus took the most damage.

Stone County has a good team and we are fortunate to get a pair of wins against them. They are going to create some problems for teams in this division.

It's important to us. I know I want to use this as a stepping stone for next season.

It was like a stone lifted off my back.

Nothing is sacrosanct and nothing is carved in stone so nobody should assume that they have the right to live with us for ever.

It used to be that people had stone floors because they shared living space with animals.

It will be fun for us. Nothing is set in stone but if the girls perform to their potential they'll do well.

The rest of the precinct -- the parade ground, the 1824 field officers' married quarters, the original 1820 barracks, the two-storied stone 1850 barracks and the 1833 soldiers' taproom and a complex of other structures would apparently all go out of military control,

Nothing was ever set in stone and we have very much worked from a storyboard as the idea took shape.

It's not always written in stone that a team that stays healthy is going to win.

So far, so good. Both our teams had pretty good indoor seasons. That's just a stepping stone to see where we're at, obviously, but we seem to be on the right track.

SMU is really good. They're a powerful and intelligent team. If you give them a seam, they're going to take it. We're going to try not to leave any stone unturned.

The issue is a stone in the show.

I'm not fooling myself. I don't expect my faith to turn up on the cover of Rolling Stone anytime soon or expect MTV to run the video. But I know there's an audience for it. And our album is sincere and comes from a well-intentioned place.

I keep thinking back to Commonwealths in 2002 and remembering what a remarkable experience that was, doing so well with our team and winning a couple of individual medals. I really feel like my success in Manchester set a good stepping stone towards Athens.

I learned from Harriet that someone can be stone cold and at the same time act like they care.

I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.

I'm actually very sensitive about those things, and it's personally painful, ... You'd have to be a stone not to be moved by these things.

In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.

I know what the situation is anytime I mess up. Hopefully it will never happen. But if I do something bad they have the option of sending me to the bullpen or releasing me. I know what the situation is. It's not set in stone yet. But they gave me a second chance to work hard and show these guys I'm capable of pitching in the big leagues.

I'm real proud of the girls. They never gave up. I told them in the locker room not to hang their heads. They're young and this could be a stepping stone for our program. I can't say enough about the effort they gave in the last three quarters.

I'm proud to be putting a stone here in his honor.

I'm often asked where my nickname 'Kun' comes from. My parents says it was a Japanese cartoon I used to watch on television when I was very young, set in the Stone Age, where the main character was a boy called Kum Kum, the little caveman.

I'm just happy to put this incident behind me and move forward in preparation for the Stone Bridge game and coaching my kids Friday night.

I lived in an apartment in Los Angeles that had six stone stairs. I was terrified I would fall, but the owners wouldn't put up a railing.

I only throw a stone if there's a stone thrown at me. As long as there's not a stone thrown at me, you won't get one thrown back.

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In the great tradition of rap records, it's an answer to the list Rolling Stone did in every way,

Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone

I rejected it many times because I thought it was just another commercial film. Sharon Stone and everything. But then, with one day to decide, I said, 'OK'. I like Sam Raimi and this character's really funny and cool.

I love the Biblical subjects and the Italian art. My favorite artist I can say is Michelangelo. He was an unbelievable artist. He could handle any kind of statue made from stone and paint anything anywhere, like he did at the Sistine Chapel in Rome. It probably is the greatest artwork ever done.

I looked at the display and I thought this display of rocks in dishes was the epitome of ridiculous. Then I had an epiphany and instantly realized the stone looked like a miniature mountain, and I became just hooked.

I look at my career as a body of work, not just Queens of the Stone Age records. I'm in Eagles of Death Metal, I'm in Them Crooked Vultures; I make records with other people.

I really feel like we left no stone unturned as far as the show went. It was easy to leave in that sense. There was no unfinished business. It was a good nine years.

If you really want the truth, leave no stone unturned.

It has definitely been a stepping stone kind of season for us. We only lose one senior in Charity and we'll have everyone else back next season. That kind of stability is what the program needed most. We were real jittery in the early part of this game, but now we have a taste of it. Next time, we'll know what it's like and know what to expect.

Hey, this can possibly be a stepping stone for the NBA, but I'm happy right now and I'm just focusing on the season.

I don't promote the team as a stepping stone to a higher level. I don't think it's realistic.

I don't know if Bruce is taking a risk. I was named to the 23 but he still has the opportunity to replace me. He explained to me that he wants me to play in the practice games and show I'm getting into form. Nothing is set in stone but he wants to give me the chance.

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He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone

Generally speaking, it's the wave of the future. But the future will not arrive on November 7. This is a stepping stone for the future.

I am proud of our team and their hard work. Stone played a great game. We were kind of fortunate,

He's not leaving one stone unturned. Just because these are major-league players, he's not taking for granted that they know how to do things the way he expects them to be done.

I believe stone died because there was no ambulance to carry him away.

He played awesome. This is the year he needs to break out and believe in his game. I believe he hit a stepping stone in doing so.

GORGON, n.The Gorgon was a maiden bold Who turned to stone the Greeks of old That looked upon her awful brow. We dig them out of ruins now, And swear that workmanship so bad Proves all the ancient sculptors mad.

For one of my scenes, the Hammer people wanted me to smash my head against a stone pillar, because they said they couldn't afford one made of rubber.

For that we require a strong chancellor. The foundation stone will be set with the election of Ms. Merkel.