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Buzzword: Bug-out bag refers to a bag that contains items needed in an emergency and that is ready for a person to take if they have to leave quickly in the event of a disaster.

Bilingual: Move over, Marty McFly! Time travel, invisibility cloaks and teleporting could all happen within today's schoolchildren's lifetimes, experts agree. Children could be traveling between centuries as soon as the year 2100, while teleportation could become a regular occurrence by around 2080, professors from Imperial College London and the University of Glasgow have said.

Metro Beijing: Beijing is nowadays blessed with convenient airports and high-speed railway stations to connect itself with the world. In contrast, ancient transportation to Beijing was so difficult that passengers could only travel using the Grand Canal. "Boating to Beijing" has been beyond modern people's wildest dreams since the Grand Canal's suspension half a century ago. But thanks to its listing as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the national strategy of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei's integrated development, the three regions plan to work together to revitalize the canal and resume water-commuting routes to Beijing.