The feasibility of the project as a grain and shipping route for western Canada depends upon the navigatability of the Hudson Strait.

[H]e would have found if he had lived for another half-century, and can be credited for foreseeing in 1906, such a disintegration and proletarianisation of society as he understood it as to transform it into a mob, and such a weakening of the national will as to leave it purposeless and helpless.

Soon we arrived at the Beijing Hotel—within shouting distance of the now infamous Tienanmen Square.

I riffled through the built-in cabinets along one wall and found a stereo almost intimidating in its high-techness.