IR On the disagreement between London's mayor, Ken Livingstone, and the Labour government over the future ownership and management structure of the London Underground, Bagehot (March 3rd) raises an issue that goes far beyond the underground itself.

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When he was alive, the concrete structure, buried four storeys underground, was air-conditioned.

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Their underground metamorphosis is slow and depends on minerals in the silt seeping into the skeletal structure, where they gradually solidify.

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Likened to an underground palace by the local press, the oenophile Tang pinned the blame for the structure on his wife, Lisa Kuo.

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