Most are associated with birds (although at least one hundred species deign to dine on mammalian body tissues); the majority of mallophagans on birds (and hence the majority of mallophagans in general) have a pair of well-developed claws on the tips of their tarsi.

a garden party;    a garden path;    a garden spade

It was the labor of the majority that funded the trading expeditions, military conquests, and artisanal expertise responsible for the great works of art and architecture that we still admire today.

Short and shy, he seems timid as he looks out through coke-bottle glasses. But for the past several years, 52-year-old astrophysicist Fang Lizhi has been China's best-known dissident - a relentless critic of the ruling Communist party