In Beijing’s view, in the absence of an explicit treaty provision, the central line of the main channel—the Thalweg principle—provided a legal basis for delimiting the boundary in the two rivers. On this basis, Beijing claimed that 600 of the rivers’ 700 islands—including Zhenbao Island on the Ussuri River, just 180 miles southwest of an important Soviet city, Khabarovsk—belonged to the P.R.C.

Besides hydrolysis another way is now known—phosphorylysis. Hydrolysis appears to be the chief means of splitting polysaccharides in digestion, and phosphorylysis the chief means of tissue disintegration of glycogen in animals and fungi and of starch in some plants—for example, in the germinating grains of some species of the pea.

There were furniture stores, but so many of the secondhanded stores carried furniture.

Glitter rock isn't associated with a specific musical style as much as a period of time, roughly between 1972 and 1975 when it reached a glorious apex in the cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show (featuring the debut of Meat Loaf).