Her hat drifted away.

The continental landmasses drifted around.

I got sucked into this.

Which struck me as particularly remarkable during one session with the novel when I realized that I was being swept along on this remarkable, vivid journey in translation.

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA As show trials go, the drama featuring Bo Xilai, the once swaggering, media savvy former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) chief of Chongqing, veered anomalously into improvisation.

What if we decided to take all the parts of healthcare that have drifted away from us and stand firm and say, No.

Land transportation links, roads, bridges, schools and hospitals have either been destroyed by the earthquakes or swept away by the massive wave.

Like other States in the region, Romania, against its will, was dragged into a conflict that claimed millions of victims and wrought enormous destruction.

If Iran gains nuclear weapons, it may, like Nazi Germany before it, be engulfed by murderous folly, threatening disaster for Israel.

But for those 20 years, an unbelievable number of really eminent and accomplished figures in the wine world were sort of drawn into the orbit of these bottles.

These are my mother's, at the top although that's not her car, it was carried there by floodwaters up to the roof and that's my sister's, below.

The difference is that China has implemented structural and thus longer lasting credit based policies, while other emerging economies have been drawn into a cyclical lending binge.

So I washed up on a Dublin ferry port about 12 years ago, a professional foreigner, if you like, and I'm sure you've all had this experience before, yeah?

The American preference for making anti communist allies, however unsavory, tied Washington to Pakistan s increasingly Islamist dictatorship, while India s non aligned democracy drifted toward the secular Soviet embrace.

In the view of his delegation, however, the language of the text reflected a considerable expansion of the General Assembly mandate for the elaboration of a declaration on human cloning it ventured into the complex area of reproductive rights, and that was unacceptable.

We in the CIS understand that the lack of settlement in the conflict in the territories of Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and in and around Nagorno Karabakh essentially has an impact on the political, social and economic conditions for development in those States that have been drawn into conflict.