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A similar thing happened with the quant sell-off of August 2007, LTCM's collapse in 1998 and the Amaranth implosion (about which we have a book review this week).

Given the ever-present danger of Nigeria's implosion — brought about by militants in the oil-producing Niger Delta, Islamic fundamentalists in the northeast, ethnic cleansing in the north central region and kidnappers everywhere you turn — we fractious Nigerians are unified by one salient truth: We all know that we cannot continue like this.

These are just a few of the seemingly normal people I've known, who've dropped out of sight because of a catastrophic self-implosion brought about by mental illness.

The $5.1 million implosion lasted about 19 seconds.

By the third session he experienced kensho, which some meditators spend their lives hoping to attain: "I felt as if something like an earthquake or implosion was about to happen," he wrote in his autobiography.

They are expected to yield information about black holes and other dense objects such as neutron stars and white dwarfs, about certain kinds of supernova implosions, and about processes in the very early universe, including the signature of certain types of hypothetical cosmic string.

The Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki was an implosion device with about 6kg of plutonium.

From "The Implosion," by Jon Lee Anderson, about Syria's civil war; a finalist in the Reporting category.

A novel X-ray backlight imaging system has been developed to obtain diagnostic information about implosion targets, wire-array Z-pinch implosions and ablative Rayleigh–Taylor instability.

Near the end of this time period, the implosion speed exceeds about 3 × 105 metres per second.

Near the end of this time period, the implosion speed exceeds about 3 × 105 metres per second.