On August 27, 2002, a Nigerian court ordered the mother of a newborn child, Amina Lawal, to be publicly lapidated for adultery.

One would expect that LOD (logarithm of odds) scores based on small sample sizes would be unstable and contribute to lack of replication.

The lamas told many stories of the terror of the snows—of gods and demons and creatures far worse than yetis, who guarded the heights and would bring doom to any man who ventured there. But I knew that men, and among them my own people, had climbed high on the other side of Chomolungma, and, though some had been killed, more had returned alive.

The barrow boy commodities trader may well have no aspirations to old-style middle class tastes.