The snails (Bakerilymnaea cockerelli) oversummer in the adult or near-adult morphology using a form of estivation.

Part of the crisis and difficulty in this understanding is that we lose sense of ourselves and our communities together, in one and the same movement of self-exile from shared words and shared expressions.

Nixon boastfully called the seven days he spent on the Chinese mainland the week that changed the world–without, however, specifying whether the change was for the better or for the worse. The way he humbled himself before Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai reminded me of the tribute-bearing foreign emissaries of the previous centuries who went to Peking to pay homage at the Chinese Imperial Court. Nixon's hosts must have laughed in their sleeves at his behavior during their meetings.

The heats increase as the summer advances, and would be altogether intolerable, if a cooling wind called limbat did not arise.