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Snow has been rare in Beijing this year so far, but skating on ice, and frolicking in the snow are still favorite pastimes for those who enjoy the great outdoors despite the zero temperatures. In fact, it is thanks to the sub-zero temperatures that Beijing's many lakes, ponds and canals have frozen over, forming instant ice rinks for children of all ages. And for many native Beijingers over 50, the Shichahai rink is still the best spot for a few turns on the ice. The lake at Houhai, where the banks are ringed with bars and pubs, has been a winter park for skaters for many generations. Many Beijingers eagerly wait for it to freeze over so they can brush off the dust on their skates and go zooming around the lake again.
Sunday Digest
A Russian fisherman huddles in a cloud of steam as he fishes near the freezing Moscow River. Snowflakes collect on a girl's face in Inner Mongolia. A young woman peers through a bus window in frigid Serbia.
Sunday People
Xie Jinbiao remembers one of the defining moments of his secondary school days. "I wasn't a good student. I was OK in year one and two, but then I took up smoking, drinking and playing up," Xie says.
Sunday Expat
Pierre-Jean de San Bartolome is a man with a very keen eye, a great deal of patience and a knack for turning the mundane into wonders for the eye to behold. His tools: a camera, doors and people who were once strangers to him.
Sunday Image
'I never in a million years thought this would happen," says CNN's Anderson Cooper on the "set" of Madame Tussauds. "And, yeah, it's kind of creepy, the whole idea, but it's also really cool."
Sunday Sports
Los Angeles - Could this spell trouble for the Chinese Basketball Association?
Sunday Sports
INDIANAPOLIS - In their four previous trips to the Super Bowl with Bill Belichick as coach and Tom Brady at quarterback, the New England Patriots threatened to go into overtime.
Sunday Life
There is a commercial building at the intersection of Canal Street and West Broadway in downtown Manhattan with a whitewashed and windowless side that most people would consider an eyesore. But for JR Skola on a recent evening it was a six-story canvas for a traveling work called "Space Monkey."
Lifestyle Trends
They are asphalt deserts that we claim to hate but that proliferate for our convenience. Houston is said to have 30 of them per resident.
Science and Technology
ISTANBUL - For 1,600 years, this city has been built and destroyed, erected and erased, as layer upon layer of life has thrived on its seven hills. Today, Istanbul is a city of 13 million, spread far beyond those hills. And on a long-farmed peninsula jutting into Lake Kucukcekmece, 20 kilometers west of the city center, archaeologists have made an extraordinary find. It is Bathonea, a substantial harbor town dating from the second century B.C.
Arts and Styles
RANCHO MIRAGE, California - Few places in the world have drawn guests like those who made it behind the pink walls of Sunnylands, the Walter H. Annenberg estate here in the desert.
Sunday Food
It always takes a long time to decide where to go whenever a large group of friends gang up for a group feed. One of the best ways to make everyone happy is to head for The Food Central.
Sunday Style
Millicent Lai will be the first to admit that appearances can be deceiving. Instead of a permanent tan from years of windsurfing or kayaking, the fair Cheung Chau (an outlying island off Hong Kong) native is more likely to be attired in a tastefully elegant white shirt as part of her smart casual look.
Sunday Kaleidoscope
The Chinese have always considered bronze an auspicious metal, symbolizing social status and wealth. Many believed that bronze brings them luck.
Sunday Travel
It's a delicious bowl of thick broth, redolent with aged citrus peel, thick with strips of mushrooms, black fungus, bamboo shoots, shredded chicken meat and ... snake.
