Now their breezy confidence seems misplaced.

Whatever our feelings are about the humans who have created these molecules, the life-saving properties of the molecules themselves stand proudly in splendid isolation.

This is a gravity-defying hat.

"This is spiritual medicine for Chinese society", Wang said loftily, nodding at the foot-high handwritten manuscript of his 12th and latest book. "Everyone has lost themselves and their faith.

But tell him, also, to set his fraternal and magisterial heart at ease: that I keep strictly within the limits of the law.