The Beijing Olympic Fuwas are five children who form an intimate circle of friends. They embody the natural characteristics of four of China's most popular animals: Beibei the Fish, Jingjing the Giant Panda, Yingying the Tibetan Antelope, and Nini the Swallow. The fifth Fuwa Huanhuan represents the Olympic Flame. Together their names read "Beijing Huanying Ni" - Welcome to Beijing. The connotation of "fu" is a wish for good fortune, luck, blessing and happiness, but also high rank (or achievement) and longevity. "Wa" extends this wish to the newborn and young people.
A curious crowd at the Summer Palace looked on with concern as nylon netting was stretched between the poles of the Spacious Pavilion, home to the largest urban population of the common Beijing swift.
One of them grabbed my arms, and another seized my legs. Then, these musclemen effortlessly picked me up and lobbed me into the back of a nearby cab.
The rural healthcare system was once a core element of Chinese socialism. After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, rural people had access to subsidized health clinics run by "barefoot doctors", who were basically middle-school students trained in first aid. The primitive service, essentially free, played a role in doubling the country's average life expectancy from 35 years in 1949 to 68 years in 1978. When China began its economic reforms in the early 1980s, the system was dismantled as the country attempted to switch to a market-oriented healthcare system. The Ministry of Health has moved to send roughly 5,500 doctors and nurses from Chinese cities to the countryside this year to help treat rural patients, introduce new facilities and train local medical staff.
Is it just me or does this sound like a line from the Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias song To All the Girls I've Loved Before?
One night in early spring, a couple from Central China's Hubei Province, Chen Zhengxian and his wife Yao Yuanxiang, tied themselves together and drowned themselves in the Yangtze River.
He Yong and Huang Min are two strangers who earn different amounts of money and live thousands of kilometers from each other. What they do have in common, however, is they both did something last year to help combat global warming.
The Synovate survey found more than two thirds of the people in the world are concerned about climate change with the South Africans and Brazilians most anxious. As a result, they are most likely to encourage their friends to become greener. Respondents in two major industrialized nations not to have signed the Kyoto Protocol are well ahead of their leaders, with 84 percent of Australians and 57 percent of Americans concerned about climate change. There is a significant section of the population that does not back the prevailing scientific view. A quarter of Americans either do not believe climate change is man made or are unconcerned about it.
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