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When there is blood in the water, it is only natural that dorsal fins swirl around excitedly. Now that America's housing market is ailing, predators have their sights on the country's credit-card market. Analysts at Goldman Sachs reckon that credit-card losses could reach $99 billion if contagion sp ...

Richard Burton probably knew nothing of the small South African town of Cullinan when he bought yet another chunky diamond for Elizabeth Taylor in 1969. Now the Cullinan mine itself, like so many of the diamonds unearthed there, is about to change hands. On November 22nd De Beers, the diamond giant ...

Here is Tencent's original open letter: When you see this letter, we have just made a difficult decision. Before Qihoo360 stops infringing upon and slandering QQ, we have decided to stop running QQ on computers installed with 360's software. 腾讯公开信原文： 当您看到这封信的时候，我们刚刚作出了一 ...

Boosted by booming international financial markets, the City of London has not had it so good since the end of the dotcom bonanza in the late 1990s. Basking in double-digit growth rates, London's law firms have both contributed to that success and benefited from it. The earnings of top City lawyers ...

Once there was a young man who came to ask Socrates how to learn philosophy. Socrates said nothing but took him along to a river. He suddenly pushed him into the river forcibly. At first the young man thought Socrates was kidding so he didn't take it to heart. But Socrates also jumped into the river ...

The animal dissection requirement of biology classes has been getting under the skin of students for generations, and there have always been some who asked to be excused from the requirement. Now, a growing number of technological alternatives are making it possible for students to swap that scalpel ...

Why are you poor? The most important thing to becoming rich for you is to have a mindset to want to become rich. The reason I saythat is this, is because I wanted to become rich when I played Monopoly, that was, I was nine years old. The greatest formula for wealth is found on that board game. When ...

1) 一般病情: 　　He feels headache, nausea and vomiting. (他觉得头痛、恶心和想吐。) 　　He is under the weather. (他不舒服，生病了。) 　　He began to feel unusually tired. (他感到反常的疲倦。) 　　He feels light-headed. (他觉得头晕。) 　　She has been shut-in for a few days. (她生病在家几天 ...

In a world where sight and sound seem to reign supreme, all it takes is a cursory glance at the size of the perfume industry to realise that smell matters quite a lot, too. Odours are known to regulate moods, thoughts and even dating decisions, which is why any serious romantic will throw on the eau ...

A line of water bottles that had become a symbol of environmental responsibility has been removed from the shelves of Canada's leading outdoor gear retailer over concerns about a chemical used in its manufacture. The Mountain Equipment Co-op, which is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, removed th ...

看电视的时候，大家会说起的话题无非就是哪个台在播什么，或是某个电视剧最新的剧情发展等等。老外讨论的也就是这些，今天咱们就把他们讨论这些话题时常用的句子总结一下，希望有机会可以用得到哦。　　 1. We're not watching this. 　　我们不看这个。 　　2. Could you stop flipping the channels? 　　你能不能 ...

Imagine how much sleep future musicologists will lose over Philip Glass. Throughout his career he has changed his scores to suit the circumstances, trimming them for recordings, for example, because he believes that nonvisual performances benefit from (relative) concision. The notion of an immutable ...

As Americas digest the news of another gun atrocity, a mall shooting in Nebraska on December 5th, they cannot be blamed for thinking that guns are in too ready supply. But an article in the latest Economic Journa suggests that the demand for illegal guns, at least, is not met as easily as people mig ...

The trial of Chinese urologist Xiao Chuanguo for organizing beatings of two of his critics started on a Sunday. By Monday, the Beijing district judge had handed him a five-and-a-half- month sentence, and lesser or equal terms to other men involved. One of the victims, Fang Shimin, a self-styled scie ...

1) take a rain check 推迟 　　2) lost count 弄不清楚 　　3) be in another world 精神恍惚；魂不守舍 　　4) make yourself at home 随意，随便 　　5) save your breath 省口气吧；别白费口舌了 　　6) make sense 有意义，理解 　　7) cost sb. an arm and a leg 非常昂贵 　　8) burn a hole in one's pocket ...

By GILLIAN WONG, Associated Press Writer Gillian Wong, Associated Press Writer – Tue Oct 19, 5:53 am ET BEIJING – At one moment, the Chinese urologist seemed to be at the height of his career: He had invented a surgical procedure to help patients overcome incontinence and was training doctors ...

Nice guys actually finish first when it comes to getting the girl, new research suggests. Psychologists believe that traits such as selflessness and altruism have become part of our genetic make-up because they were attractive to mates. They believe that as humans evolved, qualities such as being ...

It can happen to the rich, the famous and the powerful, but if these two entrepeneurs are correct and sweater marks will soon being a thing of the past. Budd Rose on the left is wearing a normal cotton shirt. In a suana, on the right is his business partner,Oliver Van Emden wearing one of their own ...

　　Rampant Fraud Threat to China’s Brisk Ascent 　　By ANDREW JACOBS 　　New York Times October 6, 2010 　　BEIJING — No one disputes Zhang Wuben’s talents as a salesman. Through television shows, DVDs and a best-selling book, he convinced millions of people that raw eggplant and immense ...

You spend about 23 years sleeping in a 70 year life。 　　在70年的生命中，你大约要花23年的时间睡觉。 　　Owls are the only birds that can see the colour blue。 　　猫头鹰是唯一能看见蓝色的鸟类。 　　Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself ...

A cab driver taught me a million dollar lesson in customer satisfaction and expectation. Motivational speakers charge thousands of dollars to impart this kind of training to corporate executives and staff. It cost me a $12 taxi ride. I had flown into Dallas for the sole purpose of calling on a cli ...

10-02-2010 China yesterday (Friday) launched the country's second unmanned lunar probe, Chang'e 2 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province. The mission marked another step for China's pursuit of moon exploration. "5,4,3,2,1, Liftoff!" Named after a legendary goddess who flew to ...

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- U.S. State Department on Sunday issued a travel alert to Americans over potential terrorist attacks in Europe. "Current information suggests that al-Qaida and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks," the State Department said in the travel warni ...

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/09/urologist-arrested-f or-attacks.html Urologist Arrested for Attacks on Chinese Whistleblowers by Hao Xin on 23 September 2010, 11:00 AM BEIJING—The police bureau here announced Tuesday evening that they have detained the suspected mastermind b ...