► Disclosure of the clandestine peer-review ring that apparently permitted a tiny band of conspirators using fake e-mail identities to review each other's papers reveals "lax reviewing practice," as is noted in the title of colleague John Bohannon's Thursday ScienceInsider.
We might have permitted ourselves a tiny rush of titillation when we heard, in June, that a clothes-free restaurant had opened in London, but we've made up for it by keeping Stephen Gough, "the naked rambler", in prison for a total of ten years.
France cannot permit a scandal".
Only a tiny fraction of the American population serves or sends a family member to war, permitting a majority to remain oblivious to its grisly human price.
But its debt markets are one-eighth as big, and foreigners are permitted to own only a tiny fraction of them.
In recognition of the hot tiny-housing-market trend, in January 2016 Fresno, Calif., became the first U.S. city to adopt a zoning code that would permit any homeowner to park a tiny house on wheels as a permanent second dwelling, either for use by the homeowner or as a rental unit.
The unparalleled detailed magnification of the surgical field provided by an endoscope permits the surgeon to visualise a tiny fistula and repair it.
The cutter leaves a tiny opening to permit urination and menstruation.
Like all other campaigns, Mr. Obama's is imbued with its leader's personality: it is a tight, centralized structure, run by a tiny group that permits no leaks.
Increasingly, Abelardo Morell finds himself drawn to oversized cameras... Morrell is a virtuoso of the camera obscura--a boxlike enclosure with a tiny aperture that permits lights to enter and pass through a lens, projecting inside an inverted image of whatever radiates from the outside.
