After cutting, calliandra sprouts so readily that it has been called the plant that begs to be cut.

I've never had Jehovahs at my door, but the other day two Mormons came to my door.

In Dianjiang county, Sichuan, a team of eleven people went around torching hundreds of straw huts. 'Destroy Straw Huts in an Evening, Erect Residential Areas in Three Days, Build Communism in a Hundred Days' was the leading slogan.

The sun blazing late in the afternoon, this long hilarious day like a pinwheel inexhaustibly throwing off sparks.