Now that the cold war has ended and political ideologies have been replaced by pollsters and spin doctors, Machiavelli's cleareyed assessments of power dynamics and pragmatic advantage are suddenly in vogue.

He's apparently found his place at the monastery.

The fare was fixed at 2d., irrespective of distance, and was paid by passengers on passing through turnstiles at each station.

Of the five proposed types of Kuroko ore deposits, three form at the surface: type III near the exhalative vent, type IV down-basin from the vent in a volcanic rock-dominated locality, and type V in the deeper part of the basin in a sediment-dominated environment.