It's funny, my wife, Daisy, whose family is littered with schizophrenics and I mean littered with them once said to me, Chris, I already have a brother who thinks he's God.

Assault weapon style shell casings, traced to different assault style weapons, littered the scene.

Her making her way down the littered vestibule stairs, one agonized step at a time.

As recognized by Robert Chambers and Jethro Petit These fine ideals stand in contrast to a development landscape littered by failure, corruption, secrecy, greed and contradictory motives.

The Somali coastline is the longest in Africa and is littered with small ports and berthing places with virtually no control, and with complete disregard for international maritime regulations.

Second, much will depend on how China navigates the transition to a more open capital account. History is littered with financial crises occurring in the wake of precipitous capital account liberalization.

One of the lines of encouragement that I heard over and over was, The streets of Hollywood are littered with the carcasses of people like you, who think you're going to come to this town and make movies.

As warnings about the middle income trap underscore, history is littered with more failures than successes in pushing beyond the per capita income threshold that China has attained. The last thing China needs is to try to balance too much on the head of a pin.

Littered with a host of extremely sensitive anniversaries, 2009 could prove even more dramatic and unpredictable than 2008. Fast approaching is not only the March anniversary of last year s disturbances in Tibet, but also the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan unrest in 1959 that led to the exile of the Dalai Lama and his supporters.

The path through international law engages lawyers and diplomats, but not the engineers, scientists, and community leaders on the front lines of sustainable development. It is littered with technical arcana about monitoring, binding obligations, annex I and non annex I countries, and thousands of other legalisms, but has failed to give humanity the language to discuss our own survival.

Are they prepared for the inevitable flow of power and influence to commodity producers as they become much wealthier? How will the world s two superpowers, China and the United States, come to terms with the fact that important commodity exporting regions from Africa to the Middle East to Central Asia are littered with ill formed nation states?

But, while the history of stock market prediction is littered with too much failure to try to decide whether the bounceback will continue much longer, it doesn t look like a bubble, but more like the end of a depression scare. The rise in equity prices has not come with a contagious new era story, but rather a sigh of relief story.

Such states are vulnerable, and the past is littered with small and successful globalizers that lost out because of power politics the Italian city states of the Renaissance, the Dutch Republic, or, in the twentieth century, Lebanon and Kuwait. Small states frequently became the victims of larger but poorer neighbors envious of their success and eager to seize their assets, while oblivious to the fact that such seizure actually destroys the source of wealth and dynamism.