And sunfish is one of the words for basking sharks.

There's only 8,000 basking shark females in the world?

Simply because of this gigantic, mammoth machine called desalination.

A third of the size of the basking shark is their liver, and it's full of oil.

In Australia, a lily turned into a grass tree, and in Hawaii, a daisy became a silver sword.

Detail from The Warrior Fujiwara Hidesato Battling the Giant Centipede by woodblock artist Katsukawa, Shuntei, 1770 1820.

And they amplified it and they tested it and they found, yes, this was actually basking shark DNA, which was got from the slime.

But the monetary union itself turned out to be a gigantic banana skin, inducing capital flows that pushed up costs around the European periphery.

In the huge Trifid Nebula, 5,400 light years away from the Earth, new stars are created from gas and dust.

Instead, the brain is a giant hierarchical memory that is constantly recording what it perceives and predicting what will come next.

Andrew Lawson was the kind of man whose force of personality could shake things up, even in a gargantuan organisation like the NHS.

I was asked to comment on United States Russian relations at a dinner with top officials from the government and Gazprom, the giant energy company.

What had before 1914 been safety nets against excessive globalization became after the WWI gigantic snares which strangled the world economy.

Through Zoetrope, Coppola formed a distribution agreement with studio giant Warner Bros., which he would exploit to achieve wide releases for his films without making himself subject to their control.

But sport can also become a kind of gigantic, distracting screen behind which nasty regimes do outrageous things the very opposite of the Olympic and World Cup spirit.

A few weeks of rain in Australia has emboldened those who think that global warming is a gigantic hoax perpetrated by the United Nations or conspiring scientists or maybe men from Mars.

Having studied the properties of the stratosphere of the giant exoplanet called WASP 121b for the first time, astrophysicists were more than a little surprised by its temperature, which is capable of vaporizing iron and other metals.

The local government of Sarawak in Malaysia is building a mega dam despite the fierce opposition of residents and indigenous peoples who will be affected by the project.

In the short run, though, the world is engaged in a gigantic game of passing the parcel, with no country wanting to take the habitual exporters goods and their capital surpluses.

For The Sultan's Elephant, Royal de Luxe came to central London and brought it to a standstill with their story of a giant little girl and her friend, a time traveling elephant.

Last but not least, diverting vast tracts of agricultural land into fuel production has contributed to a doubling of prices for wheat and other grains. With food riots in dozens of countries, isn t it time to admit that the whole idea was a giant, if well intentioned, mistake?

With food riots in dozens of countries, isn t it time to admit that the whole idea was a giant, if well intentioned, mistake?

ATHENS Even as the European Union and the International Monetary Fund lay the groundwork for a giant first round bailout, debate is swirling about whether Greece can avoid sovereign default.

The crises in East Asia and the recent recessions in Latin America show that premature capital market liberalization can result in enormous economic volatility, increasing poverty, and destruction of the middle class.

Accommodating one million asylum seekers should not be a huge challenge for the European Union an area with 500 million citizens that welcomes more than three million immigrants every year.

A contest for China s soul is now underway in that giant country, pitting two powerful forces and two very different stances toward the outside world against each other.

The Salween, which runs from Tibet through Yunnan Province into Burma and Thailand, will cease to be Asia s last largely free flowing river, with work on the first project the giant, 4,200 megawatt Songta Dam in Tibet to begin shortly.

The Salween, which runs from Tibet through Yunnan Province into Burma and Thailand, will cease to be Asia s last largely free flowing river, with work on the first project the giant, 4,200 megawatt Songta Dam in Tibet to begin shortly.