In addition to DMSe and DMDSe, the volatile Se species MeSeH and the mixed Se-S species dimethyl selenylsulfide have been identified in natural waters [91,96,256,258].

The voice she heard was slowly rough and delicately brutal, like stones being rattled in a can of ribbon cane syrup.

Someone asked for a glass of plain water and was told by the waitress: “That’ll be 60 cents.”

He argues that we have been entering, over the last two or three decades, a new phase of urban history with the emergence of the gigacity, a new, distinctive form of networked city differing from its nineteenth-century ancestor by its unprecedented size (population), its vertical extension above and below ground, its network density and its blurring of city boundaries made possible by new fast transportation and broadband telecommunications systems.