It would help to unfog the channels of distribution so that manufacturers, jobbers and retailers would know where they stood.

But when she saw them gone she forward went, / As lay her journey, through that perlous Pace ….

But unlike the intervention in Libya, where France and Britain took point and America “led from behind”, an intervention in Syria would have to be a mostly American affair, and as such it would be done with massive force from the outset.

Of particular interest is the Etruscan shrew (Suncus etruscus), the smallest living mammal, whose adult body mass averages no more than 2 g.