[…] the Pentagon is attempting to expand its worldwide communications network, known as the Global Information Grid, to handle yottabytes (10²⁴ bytes) of data. (A yottabyte is a septillion bytes—so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude.)

The principal place where the poison abounded in China, was Canton; and to strike the decisive blow there, was the firm resolution of Taou-kwang. He chose, as the instrument to effect his purpose, that very Lin-tsi-tsen, who had remonstrated with him so very earnestly in behalf of the people in Keangsoo; and who, when subsequently raised to be governor-general of Hoo-kwang, had proceeded with the most relentless cruelty against opium-smokers.

a graphite-moderated reactor

And then to want and not to have—to want and want—how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!