Giannina Segnini, La Nacion, Costa-Rica Jury comment: This investigation combines the best standards of investigative journalism with the application of the finest tools of database journalism.
Tahir's genius is in pushing back against Islamophobia and interfaith violence through some of the finest tools of Western civilization - our great classics.
Although the finest tools for procrastination, these forums are plagued by interpersonal criticism, constant comparison, and the incessant posting of pictures and statuses in an attempt to socially one-up each other.
Made by Polar, which makes many fine tools for adults, these are in two categories, ages 2 to 6 and 7 to 14.
They also have a lot to say about the texture of Lawrence's career, which he shaped with fine tools acquired early on into a thing of intermeshed but sometimes resistant parts.
Although there had been suggestions of an African genesis of modern behavior, no proof had turned up, certainly nothing comparable to the fine tools and cave art of Upper Paleolithic Europe.
Then about 50,000 years ago, all of sudden culture changed very dramatically, and you started to get art, much finer tools and the start of a period of increasingly frequent revolutions -- in agriculture, printing, industry.
Beginning with a foundation of modeling paste exactly congruent with the outline of his subject, Mr. Wolfe combines painting and silk-screening in different sequences, and uses fine tools to carve into the surfaces to create various textures.
With the rapid advances in bioengineering, we now have ever finer tools to peek increasingly closely at cellular processes, including the interaction and communication of cells with each other.
Dr. Marean said in a telephone interview that while some archaeologists were still skeptical of a strong African role in modern human behavior, there was diminishing support for the more Eurocentric "creative explosion" concept, born of bedazzlement over the cave art and fine tools of Upper Paleolithic Europe, which became widespread after the arrival of modern humans.
The main difference is that, for wood engraving, the block usually pear, apple, cherry, sycamore, or beech is cut cross-grained rather than plankwise; on the end-grain block the artist can thus cut freely in any direction, allowing him to do much more intricate work with much finer tools.
