Their variable-cost-reducing investments have dramatically increased their leverage.

In effect, the textbooks commit what we term culturecide: the destruction of a culture, either by physical force or through symbolic means. The textbooks contribute to such destruction by distorting and omitting information […]

The Charonians were proud of their frozen hell. Styxville was like Plutopolis, only less so.

Iron and steel in contact with magnets retain some of the magnetism, which is sometimes more or less of a nuisance in getting small work off the chucks.