The proliferation of laborsaving devices has not given us more leisure time, paradoxically.

Then he inserted the blade of his knife under the top of Peary's sealskin boots. He ripped the boots from both feet and gently removed the rabbitskin undershoes.

The potlatcher creates such obligations; he is making others render unto him in the future.

On April 27, pro-Russia separatists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk declared the establishment of a “Luhansk People’s Republic.” Gathered outside the seized regional headquarters of the Ukrainian Security Service, protesters said they would ask Russia to send troops to the Ukrainian region if the Kyiv authorities took “aggressive actions” against the separatists.