He was soon bungled out of the Patterson family’s California home and into a taxi on the way to the airport. He was being gooned - forcibly transported to a place aimed at correcting naughty children's behaviour.

The most talked-about new book here, “China is Unhappy,” combines hypernationalism with biting criticism of Western mismanagement and of China’s reluctance to grasp its place in history.

In the Filicales the leptosporangium has a specialized spore dispersal mechanism involving an annulus of cells with thick walls that ejects spores explosively as it dries out.

Since the train was late, we passed the time looking at our fellow passengers and making up stories about them.