"How did I manage to save myself? I don' t know, " Mr. Zhilenkov said, his track suit dotted with blood and small ragged holes.

One of her friends, "...painted the woman' s nude body with dotted lines to represent cuts of meat."

That is why India and China are now perforated with millions of irrigation wells, each drawing on a common resource.

Gas stations dotted the landscape.

The countryside around Xinfeng is dotted with hundreds of small open-pit mines into which miners pour water and chemicals, producing a sludge rich in rare earths.