Sexual attraction in the 21st century, it seems, still feeds on 20th-century stereotypes.
With his white beard and red cheeks American Kevin Kelly looks as sturdy as Santa Claus.
Peking University, one of the most admired colleges in China, may try a new approach to recruiting high school students in 2011, its president Zhou Qifeng says.
The city of Shenzhen in Guangdong province has an ambitious plan to double its design and innovation industry volume in five years.
Shenzhen is boosting its cultural profile with an innovative fringe festival.
New words that are creeping into the Chinese language indicate how vibrant the mother tongue of Confucius has become
"I spent a longer time wiping my tears than writing," Su Wei-chen recalls, referring to her book Vagrants in Time (2006) which she has dedicated to her husband who died of cancer in 2004.
We Americans are famously overfed. Only in China did I realize that my eyeballs are fat and lazy too.
When I discovered that the university I work at has a swimming pool, I was quite pleased. Swimming is a great way to exercise, because the water reduces the strain on the joints.
Men tend to behave better when they're married - both because marriage likely helps improve their behavior, and nicer men are more likely to be married in the first place, according to a United States study.
As Arctic blizzards swept across southeast England, stranding hundreds in their cars and bringing motorways to a virtual halt in whiteout conditions, Kent police received a strange call on their emergency number.
Boys today may be on a faster track to puberty than their fathers' generation, reaching the milestone an average of a year earlier, according to a study conducted in Bulgaria.