[T]he government of a country with 80 million people and a modernizing economy cut off nearly all access to the network and shut down cellphone service. . . . Egypt, to an unprecedented extent, pulled itself off the grid.

The fever’d diadem on my brow I claim’d and won usurpingly —— Hath not the same fierce heirdom given Rome to the Caesar — this to me?

a man on the shady side of fifty

In Xiji County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, boarding school students ate nothing but potato noodles. They were found to have vitamin C, calcium and iron deficiencies.