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In reality, most boundaries are party political decisions, so whichever grouping is in power at the time gets to set the rules for the next decade's contests.

Officials tightened oversight on religious and other groupings, calling for the "Sinicization" of religious practice.

The planet's powerful gravity can pull fragments together, creating dense groupings -- much like swirling gold particles collecting in a prospector's pan.

The dense groupings illustrate the "selfish herd" concept, in which individuals in the center are protected by those on the edges.

Even at this week's summit, the grouping continued to urge the military government to stop the war and seek a peaceful solution - requests that the junta has ignored these last four years.