This is Jesse, and he's squeezing a foam toy.

You could see in the middle that device, that little structure, squeezing out.

It's a way of squeezing an enormous amount of information and understanding into a small space.

If you were standing near enough, your ear would resonate with the squeezing and stretching of space.

So off they go and she's squealing and squeezing him and laughing and having a wonderful time.

The tactful group found a gap in the defences, squeezing their vehicles though a section left unbarricaded to accommodate a pathway.

Would you mind squeezing as hard as you can, in your dominant hand, this device so I can measure your grip strength?

I had dinner with a Republican senator several months ago who kept his hand on my inner thigh throughout the whole meal squeezing it.

And you have to imagine doing that squeezing without any imperfections, without any little spots where there were a few more atoms than somewhere else.

Japanese like stagnation in the developed world is challenging externally dependent Asia to shift its focus to internal demand. Downside pressures currently squeezing China and India underscore that challenge.

China bashers typically change their tune after a presidential election. But there is nothing typical about the pressures that are likely to continue squeezing American families long after November 6.

Obama may have arrived late to the right conclusion, but he expressed what should be an obvious truth You cannot keep on squeezing countries that are in the midst of depression.

There are very industrious experiments being built on Earth one called LIGO which will detect deviations in the squeezing and stretching of space at less than the fraction of a nucleus of an atom over four kilometers.

The goal of squeezing as much money as possible out of time makes a great deal of sense in poor countries, where inefficient use of time can lead to starvation. The whole point of economic development is, surely, to reduce the cost of inefficiency.

There are district attorneys and United States attorneys out there every day squeezing ordinary citizens on sometimes very thin grounds and taking them to trial in order to make an example, as they put it. I m really concerned that too big to fail has become too big for trial.

Whether their marriage of convenience will lead to an enduring union or, as George Soros predicts, a threat to world peace remains to be seen. There is an obvious sphere of influence issue in Kazakhstan, and the Chinese have been squeezing the Russians for all they can get in bilateral deals.

The favored bogeymen of the day are giant government investors, particularly Asian central banks, with their trillions of dollars in assets. These superfunds, whose managers do not necessarily share the same passion for profit as private investors, are said to be squeezing the life out of interest rates and exchange rates.

What is new, and encouraging, about the events of the last month is that Russia has found enough common ground with the US in their mutual anxiety about the rising influence of radical Islam in an increasingly fragmented and volatile region to be prepared at last to do some squeezing.

No one can determine how much of America s productivity gains in recent years have resulted from squeezing human capital, because such things are not measured. But there has clearly been a great deal of reliance on this strategy, with companies shedding employees not only because they must, but often because they have not met Wall Street analysts financial expectations.

In most advanced economies, for example, there is still a very large output gap, with output and demand well below potential thus, firms have limited pricing power. There is considerable slack in labor markets as well Too many unemployed workers are chasing too few available jobs, while trade and globalization, together with labor saving technological innovations, are increasingly squeezing workers jobs and incomes, placing a further drag on demand.

The main risk in 2006 is that America s long brewing problems come to a head globally investors, finally taking heed of the large structural fiscal deficit, the yawning trade gap, and the high level of household indebtedness, may pull money out of the US in a panic. Alternatively, rising interest rates and a downturn in the real estate market could so weaken consumer demand that the economy slips into recession, squeezing exporters in other countries that depend on the US market.