She put a bib on me but I wasn't drooling yet. I was then told to bite down on a small plastic arm attached to a big machine that spun around my head examining the contents of my cranium. Thankfully, something was found - my teeth.
On the morning of July 9, Chen Ming fixed a red-painted small wooden box reading "Jianhong Ear Fund" on the wall of his village committee. The village head then donated 500 yuan ($66) to the fund.
A naughty toddler lives upstairs from us. Recently, she pulled a kitten away from its mom during a walk through the neighborhood. She wanted to bring it home but met with strong resistance from her grandparents. So, she left it at the doorway of our apartment.
There's a three-minute delay before Trent Reznor connects on his end of the conference call. He's in Stockholm and his agent, who's trying to figure out what's behind the hold-up, is in Los Angeles. The suspense is fitting - this is after all the artist who, while recording his breakthrough album The Downward Spiral, lived in the home where Charles Manson's minions murdered Roman Polanski's pregnant wife, Sharon Tate. The same artist whose battles with drugs and depression have been much publicized and whose dark blend of electronic pop and rock has won legions of followers and inspired many imitators.
It is a good time to escape from Beijing in August when the whole city is grasped by heat and moisture. And there's no better place to flee to than to Inner Mongolia, the vast grassland only 300 kilometers north of the capital.
Buhe stood casually at the east side of the field; his eyes were fixed on the wrestlers. At 35, the father of two appeared very excited about the upcoming tussle.
Ask me to list three things I can't live without on a hot summer day, and I'll say an air conditioner, a back-up air conditioner and several glasses of sweetened iced tea - or what we southern Americans call "sweet tea".
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