And with fewer Asian Carp crossing his nets, Isaak hopes normalcy will return to a way of life he has known since the age of ten.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

The risk is that, unless their strictures lead to action, the monitors' job will seem pointless and go the way of the crossing-sweeper, typewriter designer and hula-hoop maker.

ECONOMIST: Monitored polls, ignored reports

Others make their way through China, crossing into Russia or Mongolia in the hope of getting to South Korea.

ECONOMIST: China and North Korea

The signalman had taken a call from a farmer who wanted to move his sheep across the line at a farm crossing some way up the railway line.

BBC: Jane Harding