And yet with that bleak horizon before her eyes, Katerina had said the first problem was the uranium. All the children dying. It came to that: women and their children. Even women and the children who did not belong to them. It was the only force in the world resisting the centrifugal destructive rage of men.

Semtex, PE4, C-4, Plastrite, Netrolit, Spring Korper, Rowanex-- Cono felt slightly shameful about his familiarity with plastics, and yet seeing them here, even so amateurishly arranged, gave him a perverse comfort.

Freedom is hard to come by.

He has freedom on his face.

History is running very fast in my country.

A pack of five dogs, as variable in size and shape as humans, trotted in a veering path toward the two men; they sniffed and growled and nipped at one another, then broke into a lope down the street, with the smallest mutt in the lead.

You, Cono, are part of a new trend of uncovering the genetic basis of human performance anomalies.

Tamaris to her fellow jihadi: "Don't pray-- shoot!

Lift your eyes, straighten your back, let fear and pain walk away like the turtles they are.

It’s a heavy responsibility, having saved someone’s life. You feel an allegiance because you saved them, but it’s hard to know if you did the right thing.