Men behind the monument Taken circa 1880, these pictures show the two great minds behind the Statue of Liberty: sculptor Auguste Bartholdi (right), and French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel. The latter, the man behind the Eiffel Tower in ...
updated 9:45 a.m. ET June 29, 2009 A surprising number of teenagers — nearly 15 percent — think they're going to die young, leading many to drug use, suicide(自杀) attempts and other unsafe behavior, new research suggests. The...
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How do bearing and behavior affect my likelihood of getting hired? How can etiquette help me make a good impression on a job interview? What is appropriate clothing for a job interview? What ar...
Parents, beware of poked(被戳的) eyes, broken noses, blows to the groin(腹股沟) and more While other moms were enjoying being pampered(过分关怀)on Mother’s Day, Hilary Wheeler Miller was nursing a broken nose that she suffered after...
A Sunday School helper was delivering a station wagon full of kids home one day when a fire truck zoomed past. Sitting in the front seat of the fire truck was a Dalmatian dog(达尔马提亚狗). The children began discussing the dog's duties....
Searching continues for the missing French jet. ...
My mother was always happy. ...
Greetings from space Astronaut (宇航员)Mike Massimino is seen through a window of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on May 17. The crew completed five spacewalks (太空行走)to refurbish (擦亮，清洁)and upgrade (升级)the Hubble Spa...
Phelps focused on the future. ...
Siena's Ronald Moore is mobbed(包围) by teammates Alex Franklin, back, and Kenny Hasbrouck, right, after leading his team to a double-overtime win. Dayton's Charles Little (center) tries to find a hole in between two West Virginia players. ...
A keen young teacher wanted to introduce her class to the glories of classical music, so she arranged an outing to an afternoon concert. To make the occasion even more memorable（难忘的）, she treated everyone to lemonade, cake, chocsandices. J...
Tourists ride rented horses and camels at the historical site of the Giza Pyramids, near Cairo, Egypt. The pyramids are the only surviving structures from the original list of seven architectural marvels, and were named one of the New Seven W...
The outbreak of swine flu moves to a new level today. In the US two dozen new cases were reported and hundreds more cases are suspected just in New York alone. ...
WASHINGTON - Food hijacked Dr. David Kessler's brain. Not apples or carrots. The scientist who once led the government's attack on addictive cigarettes can't wander through part of San Francisco without craving a local shop's chocolate-cover...
The annual Social Trends study published by the Office for National Statistics presents a revealing portrait of the way we live now. Education More three-year-olds than ever are going to school The age at which youngsters are first sent to sch...
Dastardly spam(垃圾邮件)! It’s a nuisance, potentially fraudulent（欺诈的）, could infect your computer – and has a hefty carbon footprint（碳排放量）. As the world filters out spam from its collective inboxes, and retrieves false pos...
A pollen(花粉) snack The Red Cosmos flower, shown here in full bloom at a public garden in New Delhi(新德里), India, belongs to the sunflower family. These flowers flaunt(挥动，炫耀) bright colorful disks gracefully balanced on long slender(修长...
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