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Photo: A woman rides a Maglev vehicle in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province. The vehicle, which uses magnetic levitation to propel it forward, was first tested successfully by the Applied Superconductivity Laboratory of China's Southwest Jiaotong University - and China is the only country other than Germany to master this technology.

Bilingual: The slow death of purposeless walking: A number of recent books have lauded the connection between walking - just for its own sake - and thinking. But are people losing their love of the purposeless walk? Walking is a luxury in the West. Very few people, particularly in cities, are obliged to do much of it at all. Cars, bicycles, buses, trams and trains all beckon. Instead, walking for any distance is usually a planned leisure activity. Or a health aid - something to help people lose weight or exercise.