She leaned forward, tilted her head, as if to get a rightways look at the snapshot herself

Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an explosion.

The Emperor Kao-tsung (1107-1162), whose official name was Kou, and whose familiar name was Te-chi, was the ninth son of the Emperor Hui-tsung. At first he was entitled Prince of K'ang, but on the two emperors Hui-tsung and Ch'in-tsung being taken north as prisoners by the Khitan he established himself as emperor in Hangchou.

The constant and irresistible pressure of such a ponderous mass in motion must occasion certain rubbings and chafings against the rugged bottoms and projecting sides of the rocks amid which they move.