The shopping mall is a popular haunt of the local teenagers in this town.

Images sprang to his mind as profuse and fat as mushrooms after rain, and being well read in the Scriptures, the works of the fathers and the Latin moralists, he was never at a loss for a recondite allusion.

Cotton cloth was currency in Mongol China; in such a market, a gin that could be operated by one ginner replaced the productive but labor-intensive two-person model.

But as was the case with pacemakers, external defibrillators were unwieldy, and the shocks they delivered—in the rare cases when patients were still conscious—were painful.