In Chapter 2, I briefly mentioned a women I interviewed who paid her Daoist master NT$20,000 for a three-day ceremony. She attended all three days of this ceremony at an apartment temple in the city of Douliu, about 70 kilometers south of Taizhong.

True babbits are tin-base alloys strengthened by the presence of antimony and copper, and occasionally containing lead.

My side twinges.

the ill-informed decision to close the hospital