In December 2002, Clonaid, the medical arm of a religion called Raëlism, who believe that aliens introduced human life on Earth, claimed to have successfully cloned a human being.

Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.

Then I cleaned it thoroughly, oiled, wrapped it in a piece of canton flannel and locked it up.

The conductor coupled the cars to the locomotive.