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  • Learning the hard way

    2010-09-16 09:17

    Vocational schools that typically attract problematic, underachieving junior and senior high schoolers, are seeing a different kind of student.

  • Better than bargaining

    2010-09-16 09:07

    Student Wang Yuelu was surprised when her boyfriend took her to an expensive restaurant in an ancient Beijing courtyard, because she thought he was a penny pincher.

  • Give and take of living in a Chinese compound

    2010-09-16 09:19

    I live in what is often termed a "Chinese compound" which, unlike the "international compounds" of Beijing supposedly made to international specifications, is a simpler residence constructed to local standards - or rather the local standards of the 1970s.

  • Industrializing India leaves little room for farmers

    2010-09-16 08:58

    Jagdishji Vaghela is one of hundreds of thousands of farmers standing in the way of India's breakneck economic expansion.

  • Intel guru: future phones will sense your mood

    2010-09-16 08:57

    Ultra-smartphones that react to your moods and televisions that can tell it's you who's watching are in your future as Intel Corp's top technology guru sets his sights on context-aware computing.

  • Where are the best restrooms? Missouri and Utah

    2010-09-16 08:57

    An ice cream parlor in St. Louis edged past a hotel in Salt Lake City and a park in New York when it was selected as having the finest restrooms in the United States.

  • Fine day for a long talk about the weather

    2010-09-15 09:50

    I had a colleague, Thomas, whose childhood was spent in Shanghai. During high school he lived in Hong Kong and for university he went to Europe.

  • Popularity can come at a price: getting flu first

    2010-09-15 09:13

    Think you're popular? Well, name a friend. It turns out that this person is probably more popular than you, a tendency that scientists might be able to use to predict the spread of disease.

  • Apology after tsunami false alarm

    2010-09-15 09:09

    The Thai government apologized Tuesday to a region where thousands died in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami after a botched warning drill this week caused hundreds to flee their homes, convinced another wave was coming.

  • Smile for the gay

    2010-09-13 15:42

    What started off as a low-key message urging straight people to register their support for the over 50 million LGBT people in China, had soon snowballed into a nationwide campaign.

  • Let loose on Tianjin's 'Kitchen Street'

    2010-09-14 09:29

    The smell of metal under duress pours out of the kitchen. I race in, scoop the frying pan off the heat and dash it into the sink - only to be told: "You ruined my eggs!"

  • Footprints on the sands of time

    2010-09-14 09:27

    Chengdu botanist travels the route taken by an English plant collector a century ago, to trace the ecological and geological changes that have occurred.

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