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Dynasties. Governments. Revolutions. Standing watch over China for all these hundreds of years, the Great Wall has seen it all.
Sunday Digest
BEIJING - Premier Wen Jiabao has urged the financial sector to strengthen its capability in supporting the production of goods and services and to prevent artificial factors from inflating the economy.
Sunday Special
When the workers in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) first built the Great Wall in Huairou district with animal power and human labor, they probably did not expect that it would be restored the same way hundreds of years later.
Sunday Expat
Sipping tea in the lobby of a fine Beijing hotel, Randy Lee Svendsen stands out. In a setting full of Chinese businessmen in Western-style suits, the big Chicagoan sits back on a brocade sofa in his trademark Tang suit, blue with gleaming gold cuffs.
Sunday Sports
MANCHESTER, England - Roberto Mancini has warned his Manchester City players to beware an "angry" Manchester United as the two rivals go head-to-head in the FA Cup third round on Sunday.
Sunday Life
A bout a year ago, I flew to Singapore to join the writer Malcolm Gladwell, the fashion designer Marc Ecko and the graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister in addressing a group of advertising people on "Marketing to the Child of Tomorrow." Soon after I arrived, the chief executive of the agency that had invited us took me aside. What he was most interested in, he began - I braced myself for mention of some next-generation stealth campaign - was stillness.
Lifestyle Trends
MIAMI - Flush with cash from a booming economy and enamored of luxury, Brazilians are visiting South Florida in droves and spending millions of dollars on vacation condominiums, clothes, jewelry, furniture, cars and art, all of which are much less expensive here than in Brazil.
Science and Technology
HELENA, Montana - Every fall the calliope hummingbird, which weighs about 2.5 grams, braves high winds and bad weather to migrate from Canada and the northern United States to as far south as Mexico, then back again in the spring - a total of 6,000 to 8,000 kilometers.
Arts and Styles
MADRID - Even on a chilly afternoon in December, the old men, engulfed in cigar smoke, were sitting around chess tables under tall pines. Nearby, a young woman had strung her line between two mulberry trees to practice tightrope walking.
Sunday Food
There was a delicacy to the meal that was intriguing. There's French cuisine and there's French cuisine, but the menu at Ja'an seemed to be just a little more.
Sunday Style
One year into her job working in Shanghai and Sara Villarreal was ready for a change.
Sunday Kaleidoscope
You may see bullfights as high drama - the choreography of elegant matadors in their black and gold finery and flourished red capes.
Sunday Travel
Hamburg, the northern harbor city of Germany, has nothing to do with Big Macs and other American-style fast food. Instead, this is the second largest city in Germany and the country's artistic hub.