"New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room."
"Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies."
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Source: Gifts for Him by Patricia Marx, www.newyorker.com. November 26, 2007.
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