The government was offering the company a fortune, and threatening it with antirobot legislation in case of a refusal.

Times are they fraught with peril, trouble, gloom; / We have to mark their lourings and to face them.

Instead of taking to the open and falling a prey to a roper, the calf lunged sideways and went under the horse-pasture fence.

Chinese authorities in the restive far western region of Xinjiang have demolished a mosque for refusing to put up signs in support of this August's Beijing Olympics, an exiled group said on Monday. The mosque was in Kalpin county near Aksu city in Xinjiang's rugged southwest, the World Uyghur Congress said.