[…] has stimulated a surge in plantings and production of rapeseed and sunseed.

There he build a giant trap over the water out of a huge cedar trunk split for part of its length and propped open with an alderwood pole.

On the Chinese side of the Khorgas border point, a rash of buildings testified to the sudden spike in China-Kazakhstan exchanges over the border in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Go sit with him. I think he's a little depressed. It's not easy to grow old. / Tell me about it.