Each staccato flare of light was glaring and vehement and expanded into the corners of the room. Bishop tracked the first shadow of movement, a dark specter, aimed for the kill zone, center mass, and fired.

Today, an automobile assembled in the United States could have a Japanese-built engine, a French transmission, a wiring-harness assembly from Mexico, electrical parts from Brazil, and a radio from Taiwan.

Nor can they expect to rely on the lack of an educational visit from an officer of Customs and Excise. If everyone were able to rely on that it would be too easy a way out of getting the tax return wrong.

Fragments of plastron with a peg-like process on the lateral plastral margin indicate a ligamentous attachment between the carapace and plastron, as in xinjiangchelyids and macrobaenids.