The punctuality of news writing and reading—its “dynamitic” potential—is distinct from the timelessness of fictive discourse, which seeks to suspend a reader's sense of duration, the better to seduce the reader into the world of its text.

You really think that conman offered you assistance out of the goodness of his heart? Doubtful. He must be working an angle.

Because factors like the social environment at the pond and competitivity for females may also play a role in a male's decision to stay or leave,the rules for change in individual behavior may be more complex and more plastic than those that guide the start and end of the annual reproductive cycle.

Those chocolates should see us through the holiday season.