His description of crassulacean acid metabolism, wherein cacti, yuccas, agaves and sedums open their stomata at night when it’s cooler in order to “bind carbon dioxide on special molecules much like we bind oxygen on hemoglobin in our blood” had me on edge for hours.

Their tighthead is a great scrummager, but is not very good in the loose.

The profession of barker has been made largely obsolete by the introduction of more effective tanning agents, but it lives on as a surname.

If the US invades Iraq, we'll see action all right, much more than we witnessed with the primitive Pong-ish effects delivered during Gulf War 1.0,