But it did mean I was stereoless for a few months and had to go through the absolute horror of doing a car boot sale – I would rather get mugged than have to do another one.

Three different groups of CI children reflect different preimplant characteristics and show different patterns of skill achievement.

By early in the second millennium B.C., states had developed indigenously in North China. An-yang, the last capital of the Shang dynasty, was excavated first in the later 1920s and remains one of the best-known early Chinese cities.

1. K'ANG-TING-TATSIENLU 打箭鑪 (12, 13, 25, 26) The city of K’ang-ting, better known to the western reader as Tatsienlu, is the provincial capital of Hsikang. The district of K’ang-ting, which is governed from the city of the same name, covers a very wide area extending over parts of both the Ta-tu valley and the Ya-lung valley.