)many people think there is no difference between an alligator and a crocodile. (2)however, the alligator's snout is shorter and broader than that of a crocodile. (3)a more dramatic difference between the two creatures lies in how dangerous they are to humans. (4)there are very few documented instances in which alligators have killed a person. (5)on the other hand, crocodiles, particularly those along the nile river, are quite dangerous to humans. (6)it is said, in fact, that as far as killing people is concerned, crocodiles are second only to poisonous snakes.

caliban is prospero's slave in the shakespear's play "the tempest"

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.