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Time As Americans See It What is time? Is it a thing to be saved or spent or wasted, like money? Or is it something we have no control over, like the weather? Is time the same all over the world? That's an easy question, you say. Wherever you go, a minute is 60 seconds, an hour is 60 minutes, a day is 24 hours, and so forth. Well, maybe. But in America, time is more than that. Americans se
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The Hijacking1 The flight from New York to Florida began routinely. The flight attendants were busy welcoming passengers, helping them stow their luggage and guiding them to their seats. Since I was first flight attendant, I was going through procedures that were now becoming normal to me after seven months of flying. In my preliminary check of the cabin, I didn’t particularly notice the
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Migrating Birds Remember Better Migratory birds not only get to see the world. A new study finds that these globetrotters also have better long-term memories than stay-at-home relatives. The extra brain power could help ensure that the birds don’t get lost on their travels. Birds flying long distances use celestial1 cues, their sense of smell, and Earth’s magnetic2 field as rou
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1996 Olympics, Atlanta The Atlanta Games were certainly the largest (a record 197 nations and areas competed) Olympics to date and perhaps the most hyped1 and overcommercialized as well. Despite all the troubles that organizers faced, from computer scoring snafus2 and transportation problems to a horrific terrorist attack, these Olympics had some of the best stories ever. The Games
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Usher: Let Him Burn Usher Raymond was born October 14, 1978 and raised in Tennessee and Georgia. Usher began his singing at the age of 6 in a church choir led by his mother. After being spotted by a La Face Record executive at a talent show in Atlanta, it took no time for Usher Raymond's career to take off. The 14-year-old auditioned1 for La Face co-founder L.A. Reid, who signed hi
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Rome In Rome, Nero fiddled1, Mark Antony praised Caesar, and Charlemagne2 was crowned. Today, you can walk in their footsteps past the masterpieces of Michelangelo, sip your cafè in the shadow of Mussolini, and dodge3 Vespas4 speeding by Baroque5 palazzi6 and Egyptian obelisks7. The ages of history live on in this, the Eternal City. However you arrive in Rome, you can tell by the traffic that y
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Time and Love Once upon a time, there was an island inhabited1 by: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all the rest of it, including Love. One day word got around that the island would sink, so all constructed boats and left. Except for Love. Love was the only one who stayed. Love wanted to hold out2 until the last possible moment. When the island had almost sunk, Love decid
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The Brick About ten years ago, a young and very successful executive named Josh was traveling down a Chicago neighborhood street. He was going a bit too fast in his sleek1, black, 12 cylinder2 Jaguar XKE, which was only two months old. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something. As his car passed, no child darted o
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Autobiography of Nobel Prize Winner: Gerardus’t Hooft “A man who knows everything.” This, reportedly, was my reply to a school teacher asking me what I'd like to become when I grow up.I was eight years old, or thereabouts1, and what I wanted to say was “professor,” but, still not knowing everything, I had forgotten that word. And what I really meant was “scientist,” someone w
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Morden Olympic Games Review 1992 Olympics, Barcelona The year IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch brought the Olympics to his native Spain marked the first renewal1 of the Summer Games since the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and the reunification of Germany in 1990. A record 9,356 athletes from 169 nations gathered without a single country boycotting the Games. Both Cuba and
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The Legend: Marlon Brando Marlon Brando, the stage and screen actor whose performances in A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront and The Godfather earned him plaudits1 as one of the greatest actors of all time, has died, his attorney said on 1st of July, 2004. He was 80. Brando's agent, Jay Cantor, said the actor was admitted to UCLA Medical Center on Wednesday evening and that
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An Experience of Watching a Bullfight in Spain We were staying at one of the nicest resort hotels we could find in the south of Spain. We noticed bullfight posters all over town, but didn't pay much attention to them. Finally the man at the hotel reception asked us if we would like to see the most famous woman bullfighter in the world. She was to fight this coming Sunday. So, we bought tic
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Paris Paris intrigues1, astonishes, provokes, overwhelms2... and gets under your skin. The City of Light is the apex3 of architectural beauty, artistic expression, and culinary4 delight, and it knows it. As drop-dead5 arrogant as the Arc de Triomphe, as disarmingly6 quaint7 as a lac-curtain bistro8, it seduces newcomers with a Latin-lover styl-and its subtle9 siren10song invites unhurried
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Four Wives There was a rich merchant who had 4 wives. He loved the 4th wife the most and adorned her with rich robes and treated her to delicacies1. He took great care of her and gave her nothing but the best. He also loved the 3rd wife very much. He's very proud of her and always wanted to show her off to his friends. However, the merchant was always in great fear that she might ru
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Hoobastank: Give Me a Reason Their band doesn't have a normal name, but the four guys of Hoobastank are normal guys. They have normal lives, they do normal things, and they have the same sense of humor as their fans. That's why Hoobastank -- guitarist Dan Estrin, bassist Markku Lappalainen, drummer Chris Hesse and singer Doug Robb -- connect with them. Their songs have that intangible1 abi
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Teachers Fight Against Internet Plagiarism1 For students who wait till the last minute to start their term papers, plagiarism today doesn't even require cracking2 open an encyclopedia3. Need a paper on the Cuban Missile Crisis? Done, for ＄ 10 a page. Want it custom made? Add another ＄ 5 per page. Just go to sleep and it'll be in your inbox by morning. Since the Internet
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Learn to Get Along with China --A Prominent1 American’s Letter to His Grandchildren The writer, a Harvard law professor, comes from a prominent American family. His great-grandfather John Hay had served twice as Secretary of State. His father had been a Senator and Secretary of the Air Force and his younger brother a former congressman. Finding China's phenomenal progress awesome after a
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Autobiography of Nobel Prize Winner: Roald Hoffmann I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe. On July 18, 1937 I was born in Zloczew, Poland. My family left Poland for Czechoslovakia in 1946. On Washington's Birthday 1949 we came to the United States. In 1955 I began at Columbia College as a premedical1 student. That summer and the next I worked at the National Bureau
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Can’t Stop Loving the Legendary Ray Charles Sound Ray Charles, who virtually invented soul music1 by infusing2 R＆ B with gospel3 fervor, was often called the Genius for his significant influence not only on urban music, but jazz and country as well. Charles, 73, died on June 11 at his Beverly Hills home surrounded by family and friends. His more-than-50-year career included doz
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Modern Olympic Games Review: 1988 Seoul Olympics For the first time since Munich in 1972, there was no organized boycott1 of the Summer Olympics. Cuba and Ethiopia stayed away2 in support of North Korea (the IOC turned down3 the North Koreans' demand to co-host the Games, so they refused to participate), but that was about it. More countries (159) sent more athletes (8,391) to Sout
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The Puppy Express Snoopy went to bed at Cathy's house a nondescript1 little brown-and-white dog, very long in the tooth, and woke the next morning a celebrity. Word of the seventeen-year-old puppy with a bad cold who was being shuttled2 across mid-America to rejoin her family had reached the news media. After breakfast, dazed by the camera but, as always, polite, Snoopy sat on a desk at th
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London London is an ancient city whose history greets you at every turn1. To gain a sense of its continuity2, stand on Waterloo Bridge at sunset. To the east, the great globe of St. Paul's Cathedral glows golden in the fading sunlight as it has since the 17th century, still majestic3 amid the towers of glass and steel that hem it in4. To the west stand the mock-medieval ramparts5 of Westmi
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Dad's Blessings A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer's showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted. As Graduation Day approached, the young man awaited signs that his father had purchased the car. Finally, on the morning of his graduation, his father ca
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Attitude The 92-year-old, petite1, well-poised and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with her hair fashionably coifed2 and makeup perfectly applied, even though she is legally blind, was moved to a nursing home today. Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursi
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Sarah Brightman：Angel of the Music Born August 14, 1960 in Berkhampstead, England, Sarah Brightman stepped into the world of performing arts at the early age of thirteen. She made her theatrical debut by starring in I and Albert at London's Piccadilly Theatre, in 1973. At 16 years of age, she joined the British dance group Pan's People and found herself performing on the television show
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The Puppy Express Once back in Fort Wayne, the Topps found a mobile home to rent, one of Joe's brothers gave them his old car, sisters in law provided pots and pans and bed linens, the children returned to their old schools, and Nancy and Joe found jobs. Bit by bit the family got itself together, but the circle had a painful gap in it. Snoopy was missing. Every day Nancy telephoned a diffe
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Train with Your Brain You've been working out regularly for quite a while, but you're nowhere near1 your fitness goals. So now it's time to bring in your ultimate weapon -- your mind. Rather than thinking of fitness as something mysterious that you do with your body, take an analytical2, goal-oriented approach to making physical improvements that stick3. Try these tips for creating
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Autobiography of Nobel Prize Winner: Jean-Marie Lehn I was born on September 30 1939 in Rosheim, a small medieval city of Alsace in France. My father, Pierre Lehn, then a baker, was very interested in music, played the piano and the organ and became later, having given up the bakery, the organist of the city. My mother Marie kept the house and the shop. I was the eldest of four sons
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Modern Olympic Games Review: 1984 Olympics, Los Angeles The summer Games returned to the United States for the first time since the Second World War and to Los Angeles for the second time. Its first effort, in 1932, was hit by the Great Depression1 and this one also had problems ---the Soviet Union and 13 Communist allies stayed home in an obvious payback for the West's snub2 of Moscow in
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Great Wall of China The Great Wall is the most time consuming, material consuming, and labor intensive construction project in human history. It is the ultimate human construction. Like a massive sleeping dragon, the Great Wall snakes across China’s landscape, rising and falling with the contours1 of the countryside. It's part of the geography of China, and this is totally unique
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