... lots of moon flowers. Bzz bzzz,” bids Littlefoot in farewell just before she disappears from the dusty land without wind, the coldest, hottest, darkest, brightest place the Num has ever known. The bee that nearly took Littlefoot's life, only to save it, lies dead on the surface of the moon, not a natural playground for bees, but a sacred burial place for such a Num-ble bee as this one. Littlefoot falls asleep on the return trip in the Num, a natural reaction to so much moon-walking, moonrunning, ...

Millions of American dollars deposited by citizens are frozen in banks, accessible only in local currency at ruinous exchange rates. These lost dollars are known colloquially as “lollars,” or LOL. The LTA is now printing physical lollars, adorned with art by Tom Young, a Beirut-based painter whose work focuses on Lebanon’s crises and corruption.

It is present in the majority of the north-western Bantu languages, and in some of the adjoining forms of Sudanian speech, as well as in the westernmost Nilotic.

The pitchfork remains one of the hand tools that no invention can ever wholly replace, and I suppose that unborn generations of men will grow hornyhanded and weary in its use.