A century ago, you were but a minor port on the Yangtze, a backwater of south-central China with a slightly different name, Chungking.

"A long period of sanctions from the West has resulted in poverty and a closing up of the country, " the newspaper wrote.

In some contexts it can be used to refer to any sort of occlusive vascular disease anywhere in the body, except the heart.

Criticize later - Or some part of your mind may feel threatened and shut up and withdraw. Just let ideas flow out, don´t try to censor yourself or worry about how silly the ideas may be.

My difficulty, which lasted for nearly 20 years, was the result of a mental block.