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"It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago. She outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them.” That was Mark ...
It started with a game called Pong – released by Atari in 1972. Since then video games have established themselves as an important form of mainstream ...
"Not completely our fault’ is the four word summary of the report released by BP on Wednesday into the Gulf of Mexico disaster. It’s only the ...
Not worth the parchment that it’s written on? That is one response to the paper industry’s promise to stop polluting its surroundings, if the ...
Say you are a Chinese citizen wishing to send an anonymous message. What do you do? Invisible-ink notes are unreliable and carrier pigeons out of ...
The Reverend Stephen Weston was a translator extraordinaire. In the early nineteenth century, he played a significant role in cracking the Rosetta ...
Another of China’s current business tycoons born into an impoverished background – this time in Shanxi province in 1952 – Yao Junliang worked as ...
"I have been asked to announce that Baron von Cramm pulled a muscle in his thigh in his first game, and he much regrets that he was not able to play ...
A Chinese Redologist is not, as you might guess, an expert on the country’s ruling Communist Party. Rather, it is someone who spends their ...
Ahead of the rest? It was a time for celebration in the Chinese press, which quoted liberally from a speech given by Hu Jintao at ...
Painting over the cracks is a familiar expression, but in China it is being taken literally. Xinhua News Agency reports that the local government in ...
Long before we all had the pleasure of meeting Susan Boyle, there was Paul Potts. The dentally-challenged cellphone salesman walked onto the stage of ...
