Or evening, in her starry mantle bright, Precedes the slow majestic train of night; In that still hour the mind excursive roves, A heavenly voice the listening spirit moves.

In last August's Geological Society of America Bulletin, geologists Linda Sohl and Nicholas Christie-Blick (a snowball critic) of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, and paleomagnetician Dennis Kent of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, published a paper on the Neoproterozoic Elatina Formation glacial deposit in Australia.

The fact that a steel-rollered machine, so long as it remains steel-rollered, did not infringe and was capable of lawful use as a complete machine in that state was irrelevant.

Their to-do lists can be impressive, inspiring and sometimes intimidating. Sadly, though, the vast majority of these 'going tos' end up in the trash heap of 'should haves', 'would haves' and 'could haves'