If one of the fuel gauges is inoperative (flight is not permitted if both have failed), the tanks have to be dipsticked before and after each fueling to confirm the aircraft's fuel status.

She waved her arm—a significant and imperative signal—but she realised, almost as she did it, that there was scant chance of any one aquaplaning at thirty or forty kilometres an hour looking to the right or to the left.

It is probably safe to assume that the effort will begin again once the reality of a post-Roe America sets in.

But it made him feel like a prototypical adolescent: a reeking gloom of zits and tit-mags.