Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.

I'm feeling really ill — the worst I've felt all week.

To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.

Scholars have long portrayed the historical Owens Valley-Los Angeles conflict as a polarized regional microdrama that is isolated in the past, without looking at the colonial context or the continuation of the conflict today.