[…] beside the deceitfulness of the heart and the carnality common to all men, the deep ignorance of the heathen, the abjectness of their social condition, their vain but venerated traditions, their time-honored customs of profligacy, impelling to infanticide, parricide, Thuggish murders, and cannibalism—all conflict steadily with the holiest efforts to transform them into symmetrical Christians.

The government jams foreign propaganda broadcasts.

We explore the theoretical possibilities of realizing a high-fidelity two-qubit quantum operation necessary for the purification protocol with the help of a postselective balanced homodyne photodetection.

Okay, I finally made my decision: Derry and Penney would be my bride’s maids and Sophie, my maid of honor. / Everything seemed to be falling into place until controversy started about what kind of attire the bride’s maids would wear. […] Between the stress of her input and the guilt of not having my sisters in the wedding, I concluded that I did not want to have bride’s maids at all.