China scrambled Thursday to clear tonnes of algae that is covering a third of the Olympic sailing course and causing huge embarrassment for authorities trying to promote a "Green Games."
Zoe Williams: Squirming adolescent embarrassment is down to brain function - and it's probably just as well
... "invitations" from me through Reunion.com, a Web site I had never visited. It was quite embarrassing, because the colleagues were at a level where I would not even be e-mailing them directly, let ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Orchids that mimic female wasps may not only waste the time of the male wasps they lure into spreading their pollen -- they also seduce them into wasting valuable sperm, ...
... the disorder is the fear of being evaluated by others, with the expectation that such an assessment will be negative and embarrassing. It tends to run a chronic and unremitting course and often leads ...
Even couples that have been together for years may be embarrassed to let a spouse or partner see their less than perfect bodies naked in bright light. That shyness can hamper a couple's willingness to ...
... felt overjoyed by something, felt excited about or interested in something, felt proud, felt embarrassed, felt ashamed.”
The researchers then grouped the emotions in four categories: active, passive, ...
... , your reputation could still be marred by disparaging comments about you on blogs or chatrooms, or embarrassing pictures someone has dug up of you rolling around drunk while at college. You are ...
... laser from simple inputs.
“The state of laser theory after forty years was an embarrassment; it was essentially qualitative, but not predictive or quantitative,” says Stone. “We went back to the ...
... are routinely very far off from original predictions," he said. "This can lead to some very embarrassing situations and expensive failures for airport owners."
According to de Neufville, the new ...
... they or their parents had felt that the symptoms weren't serious; a small number had been too embarrassed or scared to seek help.
"If young people are reporting to their GP with what are recognised ...
... two times more likely than normal-weight women to state that fear—including fear of pain, embarrassment or of finding something wrong—was the reason they did not have a pap smear.
"I am reassured ...
... considerably in their daily lives, as they experience frequent lapses of memory and attention leading to embarrassment, anxiety, reported occupational shortcomings and often the fear of dementia.
(AP) -- Facebook Inc.'s long and embarrassing legal tussle with three men who accused founder Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their social networking concept may soon end, now that a judge has ordered ...
... system.
Richard Pike, chief executive of the Royal Society of Chemistry, said today:
"It's an embarrassment that the British appear to be a right shower when it comes to caring about water. We are ...
