And now there are not only backpacks but forepacks, bulky knapsacks hanging under the chin and alleged by their manufacturers to be an essential security precaution.

She motions with the needle across the station to the paralysed, slack-handed clock.

I think he liked standing over me. It is sort of the warrior’s view. The sacker and plunderer.

Zijin had been ordered to curb gold mining production after a pollution discharge in Shanghang county, Fujian province, and it expected to lose about 1 tonne of gold production this year as a result.