Inside the prison, the chosen few readied themselves to leave their place of incarceration for three precious, painstaking, painmaking hours on the town.

The bacterium is thought to detect aging in its algal host through production of cell wall breakdown products, which trigger production of compounds called roseobacticides that can act as potent algicides (Seyedsayamdost et al. 2011b).

Small-scale Chinese-owned factories were in evidence, but the principal modern industries were a network of Japanese-controlled producers' goods enterprises intended to furnish raw and semifinished materials to the Japanese economy. The Anshan and Pen-ch'i ironworks and the Fushun coal mines, large vertically integrated installations, were the most prominent among these units.

With his overzealous attempts to impress, he only managed to annoy her.