A new ashpan has been fitted, however, with four bottom doors for self-emptying, and a rocking grate with twelve rocking sections.

She risked looking back just as she reached the porch, and she tripped and fell, not because she had misnegotiated her footing, but because she was shocked at what Shawn was doing.

Leaders from Red China's provinces admitted openly neither food nor clothing has been suffient in the rural areas on the mainland for years. . . . According to the daily, the accurate picture of villages all over the mainland was first revealed by a group of party secretaries at the prefectural level from the province of Anhwei. . . . The Kyodo News Service claimed that the situation in Anhwei Province as revealed by prefectural level party secretaries may be considered he norm for other provinces and villages on the mainland.

The airport on Peikan Island, the second largest in the Matsu chain, is currently being upgraded at a cost of NT$700 million (US$22.6 million).