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Photo: Students stretch out before dance practice at a high school in Handan, Hebei province, on Saturday. Students wishing to major in dance are busy in a final rush to prepare for the art examination that will be held next month.

Bilingual news: People who own all-electric cars where coal generates the power may think they are helping the environment. But a new study finds their vehicles actually make the air dirtier, worsening global warming. The controversial study raises major questions over the future of "green" cars. Driving vehicles that use electricity from renewable energy instead of gasoline could reduce the resulting deaths due to air pollution by 70 percent, it concluded.

Buzzword: The newly coined term "pre-cation" refers to a holiday taken by a new employee on joining a company. A pre-cation is a 'pre-' holiday in the literal sense - it's taken before the newcomer even sits at his or her desk for the first time.