News Spotlight (1) 新闻聚光灯 The Moscow Hostage Crisis October 24 On to Russia now where a group of heavily-armed Chechen rebels is holding up to 700 theatre-goers hostage in a daring overnight...
Ocean Deep by Cliff Richard Love, can't you see I'm alone Can't you give this fool a chance A little love is all I ask A little kindness in the night Please don't leave me behind No, don't tell me lov...
A Century of Memories (1900-1909) On the eve of the new century, the sense of 1) boundless possibilities also 2) ignited an explosion of technological 3) innovations that would have 4) profound impact...
Teacher Shortage [ 原文 ] Tina Millington: Teaching is, to me, the greatest profession. It is a profession, it's not a job. It's something that many teachers choose at the beginning and do for the r...
Denzel Washington [ 原文 ] Denzel first learned to fight growing up on the streets of Mount Vernon, a working-class suburb outside of New York City. His mother, Lenis, managed her own Beauty Shop, h...
eBay [ 原文 ] Meg Whitman: It is incredibly unique, I mean, before eBay there was no way to connect businesses and individuals on a 24-7 basis in an efficient market to trade goods and services. Int...
The Birth of a Masterpiece -- Michelangelo's David If ever a work of art had a right to feel over exposed, it is Michelangelo's David, naked in the heart of Florence for nearly 5 centuries. In recent...
1) Vanilla Sky Scene 1 (David always has nightmares. He is imprisoned after he was charged of murder. He tells Doctor Curtis McCabe one of the nightmares in which he runs in the empty Times Square wit...
A Prelude to A Dream By Cameron Crowe / Director of Vanilla Sky In the winter of 1997, I saw a Spanish film called Abre Los Ojos. I couldn't get it out of my mind. The movie felt like a folk song to m...
My Cyber Love I have frequented the same chat line for more than 3 years now and have made some wonderful online friendships. However, I had become bored with the typical chat and the Internet all tog...
Prince William Grows Up! At Eton, William 1) breezed through his 2) A-level year. He shined at sport and he was elected by his schoolmates to "POP," the college's elite 3) prefect's club, made up from...
The Coming of the Ming Dynasty You could not have written a better closing chapter for one of basketballs’ big men. The NBA title for the San Antonio Spurs gives their center 37-year-old David Robin...
A process of change 1) Napster’s gone but the technology remains. And so does the damage to profits. So can the music industry adapt to the times and turn the technology that’s taken its profits i...
March into Nashville A little later tonight, the Grammy Awards will be presented. And one of the nominees in country is a band that calls itself Bering Strait, whose sound is as pure and clean as the...
Vitality of your voice Do you remember the most boring thing about a boring teacher? Wasn’t it the voice that 1) droned on and on with little evidence of interest much less 2) enthusiasm. Think abou...
