Paeans and even poems have been written to the esoteric nature of the smallest building blocks of matter: how they manifest as everywhere and nowhere, seem to have come out of emptiness, and at the ultimate level seem to be distilled from pure nihility.

To be a real phillumenist, however, requires that one take his assorted books and shuck them, press them, and then categorize them according to subject, era, size, and maker.

exposure to secondhand smoke from cigarette-smoking colleagues

Have you noticed a proliferation of those MallWart stores where the workers can't even afford the low prices?