原来做人并不是万物所向往的，本文这只不愿被变成王子的青蛙，告诉我们，每个人都有自己独有的优势和长处，最重要的是做最好的自己，做最舒服的自己。 Wanda, the neighborhood witch, was a go...
THERE'S NO QUIBBLING with Warren Buffett's extraordinary overall investment record, which has resulted in a $205 billion stock-market value for Berkshire Hathaway. But, in the past few years, Buffett has invested in some companies whose shares have b...
According to the Daily Telegraph of November 4, people in the US are twice as likely to contract diabetes and a third more likely to develop cancer than those among similar aged people in England。 But despite this, Americans, aged 65, can expect to...
Their lives were shrouded in secrecy for most of their childhood, their identities a fiercely guarded secret behind masks enforced by their paranoid father. Now, Prince, 13, Paris, 12, and Blanket, eight, have now taken the next step and are going pu...
According to the Daily Telegraph of November 4, Dr Allen, 35, a scientist, suffers from bouts of cataplexy, a rare symptom of narcolepsy, triggered by strong emotions-such as fear, surprise or laughter。 The attacks cause her to lose control of her...
People facing unpleasant tasks from drinking medicine to passing on bad news could ease these painful moments by simply tensing their muscles. A study published in the Consumer Research journal, found that clenching your fists temporarily boosts your...
Los Angeles, Sep 20 (IANS) Filmmaker Roman Polanski's political thriller 'The Ghost Writer' has been named best picture at International Federation of Film Critics, in Spain. The 'Rosemary's Baby' filmmaker, who endured a tough year since he was take...
在一次电击事故中失去四肢的法国42岁男子菲利普?克鲁瓦松日前成功横渡英吉利海峡，用时仅13.5小时，比之前预想的24小时快了很多。克鲁瓦松于当地时间周六早晨8点之前在英国南部的福克斯...
London taxis, with their friendly drivers who actually know where they are going, are ranked best in the world, according to an annual taxi poll。 一项有关出租车的年度调查显示，伦敦出租车因其态度友好、熟悉路线的出租车...
Tall buildings, big events, modernity: The characteristics of a sexy Chinese city. Condom sales, birth rates, transmitted disease and toys: The determinants of a sexy US city。 In unrelated surveys released this week, Shanghai was named China's sexi...
According to the Livescience.com of September 17, wedding bells ring sooner for women in places where single ladies are scarce, showed a new study of metropolitan areas in the US。 Where single women are rare, women marry earlier, researchers report...
Scottish singer Susan Boyle has been given three different entries in the new Guinness World Records book。 Her debut album I Dreamed A Dream was the fastest selling album by a UK female and also had the most successful first week's sales of a UK de...
China's youth can get a bad press. In most accounts, they are the Little Emperors or the Me Generation, the spoilt and apolitical offspring of one-child families who are interested in fast cars, video games and designer goods but little else. At the...
According to the Daily Telegraph of September 20, the world's ten most unanswerable questions include what is the meaning of life, does God exist, showed a study made by Ask Jeeves, a popular search engine in US。 The search engine has now compiled...
一位保加利亚艺术家制作的一系列另类欧洲地图近来在网络上受到热捧。在这些地图中，每个国家和地区的名字都用别国国民对其固有的印象来标注，例如，在名为美国眼中的欧洲的地图上，...
