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Phones And The City

Spreading culture with fashion and design

A fashion model usually is young and has a perfect body, but Jiang Qiong'er, CEO and designer of Chinese brand Shangxia says her favorite model is her 96-year-old grandmother.

'A designer's designer': NY exhibit showcases Chareau

More than a decade before Philip Johnson designed his iconic Glass House, French designer and architect Pierre Chareau designed the Maison de Verre in 1932 in Paris. It featured one of the world's first glass-brick exterior walls - three stories high.

The abnormal is hard to execute

Cory Doctorow, a Canadian-British blogger, journalist and science fiction author, wrote, "Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal."

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Ghost the Musical in Shanghai

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Reindeer Herding In Russia's Arctic

In Russia's remote Arctic regions, reindeer herding has been a way of life for centuries. Each winter, herders in Russia's sparsely populated Nenets Autonomous District corral their reindeer into open-air pens before selecting weak animals to be culled.

With only one road to home, take it

Douglas Adams, in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, wrote, "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."

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Riverdance in Chengdu

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Coping with prader-willi syndrome with Chinese medicine

LI HANG, 11, HAS BEEN GETTING FATTER since he was diagnosed with the Prader-Willi Syndrome at 3. In early March, his weight reached 167 kg.