The memory of harassments, threats and manhandlings, the fear brought by torture pricks painfully in his subconscious.

There is a story, possibly true, that illustrates forcefully the difference between contemporary big science and traditional, small science – science as it used to be before World War II.

She's got that Indian wrestlin' down pat, an' she's built for it.

Below the great blue turaco were no fewer than twenty-six other new species, most of which the trio had spotted coming down to drink at the bird bath which the thoughtful and aviphilic guest-house owners had set up in the garden.