The old ruling party, the Guomindang (GMD), is interested in closer relations with the no longer socialist Mainland, but it is out of power. The present ruling party, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), is no longer talking about independence, though this had been its raison d'être in the past.

The foot abduction is smaller (out-toeing is smaller) in the high-heeled gait (Adrian and Karpovich, 1966; Snow and Williams, 1994; Stefanyshyn et al., 2000), or no significant difference exists between the flat-heeled and the high-heeled gait (Merrifield, 1971).

I may add that in my own domestic circle, under my wife's mediumship, we have been privileged to bring hope and knowledge to some of these unhappy beings.

Writers of particular lives […] are apt to be prejudiced in favour of their subject.