3. Waiting for the Breeze Lying in bed by an open window and listen.No air conditioning?How can you sleep?a friend asks, horrified.I've just revealed that my family has decided to shut the air conditioner off and trim our electric bill. Nobody op

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9. Pessimism Raises Dementia Risks, Study Finds Pessimistic, anxious and depressed people may have a higher risk of dementia, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday. A study of a group of 3,500 people showed that those who scored high for pessimism on

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Thomas Henry Huxley May 5,1883 I beg leave to thank you for the extremely kind and appreciative manner in which you have received the toast of Science.It is the more grateful to me to hear that toast proposed in an assembly of this kind,because I hav

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3. Tennis's Heritage Everything about tennis, except its essential rules, has changed from the way it was played 100 years ago, when balls, clothes, players and spectators all were white. Andre Agassi's baggy shorts and Serena Williams' bright, skint

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I Have A Dream So I say to you ,my friends, that even though we must face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true mean

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Forbes' list has new names; Gates No. 12005年福布斯富豪榜又有新变动,比尔盖茨仍旧稳居榜首 Thanks to a surge in demand for steel, the Internet and Scandinavian sofas, there are some new names among the very richest of the world'

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The Life of the Greatest Comedy Artist -- Charlie Chaplin To a failure, hardship is an excuse;To a success, hardship is great fortune. Stagestruck Charlie Chaplin plodding all the way. Charlie Chaplin was born on April 16, 1889 in London. Her fathe

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7. Natural Yoghurt beats bad breath Sugarless yoghurt could help beat bad breath, tooth decay and gum disease, say scientists. Japanese researchers found eating the yoghurt reduced levels of hydrogen sulphide - a major cause of bad breath - in 80% of

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UNIT 5 1. The Temple of Zeus In his right hand a figure of Victory made from ivory and gold.In his left hand, his scepter inlaid with all metals, and an eagle perched on the sceptre.The sandals of the god are made of gold, as is his robe. Pausanias t

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3.Fengzheng Fengzheng is a kind of folk toy as well as a handicraft. It is made from slender slips of bamboo as the frame with thin paper plastered and a long thread to fly with. It flies into the sky with wind. However, fengzheng in its earliest sta

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5. The Colossus of Rhodes To you, O Sun, the people of Dorian Rhodes set up this bronze statue reaching to Olympus when they had pacified the waves of war and crowned their city with the spoils taken from the enemy. Not only over the seas but also on

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5. Women Taking Risk after Drinking More than a third of young women have been sexually assaulted after getting drunk, according to new research. The Anatomy of a big night out survey reveals that 34% of young women have had unplanned or unprotected

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6. Yahoo Celebrates a Decates Online Yahoo, one of the net's most iconic companies, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this week. The web portal has undergone remarkable changes since it was set up by Stanford University students David Filo and Jerr

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10. Sattelite Launced from Xichang Space Center China re-entered space yesterday evening, sending a communication satellite into orbit atop a Long March 3B rocket from a launch pad in Xichang in Southwest China's Sichuan Province. A spokesman for the

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6.King Maosolos I have lying, over me in Halicarnassus, a gigantic monument such as no other dead person has,adorned in the finest way with statues of horses and men carved most realistically from the best quality marble.King Maussollos in Lucian[2]

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6. Official: Drinking Improves Thinking It is guaranteed to raise a cheer among those who enjoy a tipple: moderate drinkers are better thinkers than teetotallers or those who overindulge. Research by the Australian National University in Canberra sug

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Video Yoga , a Health Hazard Yoga exponents are being caught out by the activity's relaxing and low impact image with more than one in four injured during sessions. A failure to warm up and prepare adequately for the exercise has been identified as c

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4. Women Drivers are Safer, except for When Parking Men commit nine times as many motoring offences as women. Home Office figures show that the vast majority dealt with by courts for every type of traffic offence are male. The disparity between the s

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Do French Women Make Best Mothers and Lovers? French women lead Europe as mothers, workers and in health and sex appeal, say some of the country's leading sociologists. Academic research has lent a little support to President Jacques Chirac's Bastill

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8.Spotlight on St. Petersburg St. Petersburg. The very name brings to mind some of Russia's greatest poets, writers and composers: Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tchaikovsky. The 19th century was a golden age for St. Petersburg's wealthy classes. It was a worl

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