She gave him a slap in the face.

Ninety degrees north that is slap bang in the North Pole.

It's for Motorola's new Rugged cell phone, and yes, it really does say, Slap Mother Nature in the face.

They didn't just slap a new ad on the product they changed what it meant to build a paint product.

What if I could stick this molecule, slap it onto a bacteria that was pathogenic to me, that had just invaded my lungs?

And the thing that fascinates me about the North Pole, geographic North Pole, is that it's slap bang in the middle of the sea.

That's because an Apache triathlon used to be you'd run 50 miles across the desert, engage in hand to hand combat, steal a bunch of horses and slap leather for home.

The other thing is, most boats, when they reach a certain speed, and they are going on waves, they start to hit and slap on the surface of the water, and a lot of the energy moving forward is lost.

In small countries, where a significant share of bank liabilities is in someone else s currency, the national central bank lacks this capacity. The only options are then to slap draconian controls on the banking system or join the euro area.

Such an approach would expose the West to attacks by Putin and similar aggressors. And it would be a slap in the face to all of the courageous men and women worldwide who risk their lives every day in the pursuit of freedom and democracy.

Protectionists in the United States and Europe, itching to slap huge punitive tariffs on Chinese goods, have been caught flat footed. They want to keep bathing in press coverage, but if they push their China bashing too far and too fast, the protectionists will be seen as hindering delicate behind the scenes negotiations.

The struggle to mold our future, to stave off the humanitarian disasters of war, disease, and starvation leaves little room to be philosophical about our place on this crumb of cosmic dust. But many scientists, including me, have a sense that the universe might be about to reach in and give us a metaphorical slap in the face.

Europe cannot give an openly negative answer to Kerry's request for help, because that would be a slap in the face to the most pro European American likely to be elected president anytime soon. Such a rejection would not only put transatlantic relations even more at risk than they are today it would also put relations

NEW YORK Let us assume, for the sake of argument, that Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician who is convinced that Europe is in the final stages of Islamization, is right Anders Breivik, the Norwegian mass murderer, is mad. Wilders tweeted That a psychopath has abused the battle against Islamization is disgusting and a slap in the face of the worldwide anti Islam movement.

Europe cannot give an openly negative answer to Kerry's request for help, because that would be a slap in the face to the most pro European American likely to be elected president anytime soon. Such a rejection would not only put transatlantic relations even more at risk than they are today it would also put relationsbetween European countries in peril.

Where the IMF s next managing director will come down on this issue and on whether fiscal salvation is to be achieved through austerity, with costs borne by ordinary citizens, even as bankers get only a mild slap on the wrist is critically important, but hard to predict. Despite the failure of the IMF s strategy in East Asia, Latin America, and elsewhere, it still has adherents, even within the emerging markets.

For a facial slap, the interrogator was supposed to hit with fingers slightly spread, at equal length between the tip of the chin and the bottom of the corresponding earlobe. Dousing a naked detainee with water was to last 20 minutes if the water s temperature measured 5  C, 40 minutes at 10  C, and up to 60 minutes at 15  C. Sleep deprivation could not exceed 180 hours, but could start over again after eight hours rest.

For a facial slap, the interrogator was supposed to hit with fingers slightly spread, at equal length between the tip of the chin and the bottom of the corresponding earlobe. Dousing a naked detainee with water was to last 20 minutes if the water s temperature measured 5 C, 40 minutes at 10 C, and up to 60 minutes at 15 C. Sleep deprivation could not exceed 180 hours, but could start over again after eight hours rest.

The high cost of employing workers in France is due not so much to wages and benefits as it is to payroll taxes levied on employers. The entire French political class has long delighted in taxing labor to finance the country s generous welfare provisions, thus avoiding excessively high taxation of individuals income and consumption though that is about to come to an end as Hollande intends to slap a 75 tax on incomes above 1 million.