Stand aside girls. Your time on TV is gone. This year the boys take center stage. After two years of top-rating, female-focused talent shows, television producers are saying: Let's hear it for the boys. In 2005, Central China's Hunan TV launched Super Girl, an imitation of American Idol, creating a rating miracle of 400 million viewers in its first season. This year producers hope their new incarnation, Super Boy, will do the same.
There are gold mines and beauties in books if you read them hard, says Chinese saying. It means a successful scholar will always be rewarded and this motivation has been a driving force behind Chinese students for thousands of years.
Police cars patrolled the streets, ambulances were placed on standby and electric generators were put in position in case of an emergency. In Chongqing, authorities fired rockets in the air to create rain to cool the rising temperatures.
For most of China's education-obsessed parents, getting their children into the United States' most prestigious public university would be a grade-A honor.
The chance to tour China for 10 days sparked intense competition among the ambitious students of Yale University. But with her ability to speak Chinese, 21-year-old Erica Smith stood out from her Ivy League classmates.
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