Construction of this expressway, linking Lanzhou with Wulumuchi, has continued further west as part of the central government’s attempt to equalize the balance of economic development between the prosperous east and the less developed western interior.

Old Age, with silent pace, comes creeping on, Nauseates the Praise, which in her Youth she won, And hates the Muse by which she was undone.

Although Beatrix considered them 'very scribblesome', she took note of the boy's interest and enthusiasm.

His batting average has hovered in the .330s all season and he has played his usual sticky-fingered defense at second.