From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.

birth + -er → birther

For the pederastically inclined, these brothels no doubt formed the nerve center of the subculture by virtue of their various functions.

Dick thought he was a surveyor or stoneknapper, as the members of the geological survey were called.