After one trip with them, he decided he couldn't stand to have bodyguards hulking around him wherever he went. He felt like an idiot walking along the aisles of the supermarket with eight lumpy men standing around …

Otherwise, whenever we woke up to a skiff of fresh snow in the garden, maybe a couple of times in a winter, we would run outside to make snowmen and snow forts, feeling alive in the cool snowy air.

The house was on fire, but Alex still insisted to complete that game before evacuating. Priorities.

The preliminary conclusion was that the SARS virus crossed the xenographic barrier from palm civet to humans.