In others, people will stare at their shoelaces, check their watches and go home.

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Telomeres protect the chromosomes, much like the plastic tips on shoelaces keep lace from fraying.

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Witnesses said that as Ms Jenkins walked by, Dean bent down as if to tie her shoelaces.

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The effect is like that of a bunch of runners going briskly but with their shoelaces undone.

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They have been likened to the caps on the ends of shoelaces - they stop things from unravelling.

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They're showing a strip of fun between the pant-hem and shoelaces with all manner of patterned socks that one-up the now-ubiquitous stripe.

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In the credit sequence, a fried egg took on an unnerving affinity to a sliced eye, and shoelaces resembled rope tugged tight.

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Draped head to toe in carrot orange (down to his shoelaces, wallet and cellphone cover), he traveled 400 days over two years, gaining platinum frequent-flier status on five airlines.

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When she reaches the bags with the life jackets, Verna fumbles with her shoelaces until all eyes are elsewhere and she can cram an extra life jacket into her backpack.

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The sodden shoelaces trailed out left, right in perfect symmetry.

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In the first of the film's dizzyingly orchestrated cat-and-mouse sequences, Bourne steals the reporter out from under a thousand virtual Agency eyes and ears in London's Waterloo Station. (Tip for the terrorists: to avoid detection, when all else fails, tie your shoelaces.) The hack doesn't make it, but Bourne is nothing if not elusive, and it's on to the next stage in his whirlwind European tour.

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