The Chinese government announced yesterday that the initial round of clinical tests show the world''s first vaccine for severe acute respiratory syndrome to be safe and effective.
Wang Xiaofang, a sen

      Great Barrier Reef in danger
THE Great Barrier Reef''s inshore coral and seagrass meadows are choking under a blanket of mud laced with toxic pesticides being washed off farmlands and many reefs are unlik

     
Scattered through the seas of the world are billions of tons of small
plants and animals called plankton. Most of these plants and animals are
too small for the human eye to see. They drift about lazily with

     
　　Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881. When he died in 1973, he was ninety-one years old. But he still took up his paints and brushes to start a new picture as if he were seeing things for the first time

     
　　The last time Natasha s parents saw her was in Los Angeles over Father s Day weekend in 2001. She flew there to join them in sightseeing, shopping and visiting relatives.
A month later, Natasha was found

     
Oliver Wendell Holmes (奥利佛·文德尔·荷默斯)
Mar.7,1931. (1931.3.7)
Brief introduction to the speaker : (演讲者简介：)
Oliver Wendeil Holmes (1841-1935) Oliver Wendeil Holmes, Jr., was

      What I saw was a great opportunity to provide computing technology in a more efficient way. That was the core idea of what became dell computer Corporation, and that’s one we were stuck over ever since.

      Global warming is shrinking glaciers on the Tibet side of Mount Everest faster than ever, putting world water supplies at risk, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.
Chinese scientists researching the world'

      　　Ronald Reagan, who died on Saturday after his long battle with Alzheimer''s
disease, projected an aura (气氛）of optimism so radiant that it seemed almost a
force of nature. Many people who disa

      “How do you move and click a computer mouse?” “ How do you　press the buttons on a cell phone?” I watch a large group of schoolchildren at Jian An Elementary School asking painter Hsieh Kun-shan one question after anothe

      Diana’s ‘steamy fling’ with JFK Jr
PRINCESS Diana had a lust-filled one-night stand with John F Kennedy Jr according to a new book written by a friend.
According to author and Diana confidante Simone Simm

      Chinese companies are learning that brands can pay
中国公司正意识到品牌可以获利
WITH an increasingly sophisticated[老练的/精明的] and wealthy customer base, Chinese consumer-goods makers are starting to pay attention to brand

      The first memory I have of him — of anything, really — is his strength. It was in the late afternoon in a house under construction near ours. The unfinished wood floor had large, terrifying holes whose yawning[张大嘴] d

      Suppose someone gave you a pen - a sealed, solid-colored pen.
假如有人送你一支笔，一支不可拆卸的单色钢笔。
You couldn''t see how much ink it had. It might run dry after the first few tentative words or last just long e

      Taiwan''s opposition has won a legislative majority in a stunning upset over President Chen Shui-Bian''s pro-independence coalition.
The opposition Nationalist Party and its allies won a combined