To its adherents, collapsitarianism suggests a giddy liberation from hope, from futile shoring up of ailing economies like Detroit’s and the Sunbelt’s, from bailouts and stimulus plans and climate change and toxic-asset recovery.

A gents' toilet room might be found in a house that caters for the cheaper class of theatrical patronage, where the slangy language of the goin' to the mat this aft? style prevails. A gents toilet room is not found in the Southern Hotel. It either men's or gentlemen's.

So far, experimenters have managed to make single quantum logic gates. Factoring a 300-digit number would require stringing together thousands of gates, and even quantum computing's most enthusiastic supporters admit that such a goal is exceedingly daunting.

Their plans for a large wedding were interrupted when Chinese guns bombarded Kinmen County, which triggered the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis and prompted the army to send him to the front, he said. For a month, Taiwanese and Chinese forces engaged in gunnery duels, aerial skirmishes and one naval action off the coast of Dongding Island (東碇島).