She was young and beautiful, with dark, oriental features, and a bearing which aimed at supremity of arrogance.

The children's ideas were creative responses to the lines of the original: a lurky stream, dark, muddy, soil coming up from the bottom.

Sleek Audio is part of a trend called reshoring, in which primarily small businesses decide that China is a hassle and that they want to bring their operations closer to home, where the recession has lowered costs, created workers eager for jobs, and made it easier to justify U.S. manufacturing.

Now Sears looked down at the person fate had put closer to him than anyone else in the world, and knew that Ricky was thinking that he had weasel-worded his way out of the last question.