Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.

John walked every day to his downtown job.

Saxton rode to where Marcus lay unconscious on a canvas litter stretched across the breadth of a lumbering freightwagon.

Hyundai hopes Genesis will lure the well-heeled with curb appeal even if it lacks snob appeal.