Cells were first deenergized by an overnight incubation in Mg-PPB with 5 μM CCCP and loaded with 32 μM 1,2’-DNA at 37°C in the dark.

At 2:28 p. m. on Monday, exactly a week after an 8.0-magnitude earthquake jolted Wenchuan, the 1.3-billion Chinese people stopped to observe three minutes in silence for the victims.

https://books.google.com/books?id=2NMBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA290 page 290 Then Esther would be constantly making us little presents; little pin-cushions, and purses, and such like, which it was impossible to refuse. … [W]e had some very fine old lace, which had belonged to our mother, and we agreed that we would give this to Esther. … https://books.google.com/books?id=2NMBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA291 pages 291–292 When the transaction came to Aunt Dorothy's knowledge, she was very indignant indeed; and said that we were "two fools to be pin-cushioned out of our mother's old point, which had been in our family ever so long. A nonce usage apparently meaning “to have pincushions foisted on oneself”.]

The worst part, the refugees say, is maneuvering survival in a war whose combatants are often quick-change artists, looking like a neighbor by day and a killer by night.