It had been nearly 50 years before, in 1888–1898, that Armstrong first tangled with the ionists' ideas and, as Dolby comments, he was “an extreme individualist, who would never yield to the social pressures of a scientific community […]

More than 30 persons, most of them farmers on the verge of starving to death, were convicted of counter-revolutionary charges at kangaroo court in Wuhan and given sentences ranging from two to 12 years, it was reported from Hongkong February 25. . . . Wuhan is the collective name of Wuchang, Hankow and Hanyang at the confluence of the Yangtze and Han rivers in Hupei province, central China. Some of the farmers were arrested in Wuhan parks where they allegedly spoke against Maoism and the Communist dictatorship, the report said. Others were charged with breaking into a Communist granary in Wuhan, it said.

This ancient wash was an egressive channel that once drained a lake.

Already orbiting at altitudes unimaginable a few short years ago, interest rates moved even higher last week and threatened to shoot the moon.