"Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies."
"New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room."
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Source: Buy Shanghai! A city for sale by Patricia Marx, www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2008.
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