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Life Pulse
Keeping up the beat
Dark-skinned and bare to the waist, his long hair flying, a man strikes fiercely on a one-m-long, black wooden drum painted with a bull head at either end. He stops after every two or three hits, stretches out his arms, and raising two club-shaped drumsticks in his hands, looks up at the sky.
Time to hit the high seas
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Life Travel
Get your sea legs
I had never been to Hong Kong until early April. But this was not what prompted me to call several friends there before my departure. I told them that I was visiting but would only stay in Hong Kong for about two hours. I waited to hear their surprise and disappointment before I went on:
History lies on the outskirts of a metropolis
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| Participants in yesterday's fun run pass by the Bird's Nest in Beijing. More than 10,000 people took part in the event to mark the 100-day countdown to the Olympics. Xinhua |
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