The Dragon Boat Festival is one of China's major traditional holidays, falling on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, which falls on June 10 this year. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan) People shop for Zongzi, a traditional Chinese food to mark the Dragon Boat Festival, at a mark...
"The threat of falling shells forced my family and me to flee our area and come here, where we've been receiving food from the Takia ever since," said Nimeiry Taha, a Sudanese displaced from the Al-Omda neighborhood in central Omdurman. He noted that such community initiatives have signif...
Yet the most popular strategy for addressing the biggest energy crisis ever to face Virginia is to continue the status quo – that is to say, to keep the data center sprawl sprawling. Of the two dozen or so bills introduced this year that would put restrictions on growth, manage its conseq...
57.9% of the old people feared falling while taking a bath, 59.2% while going to bed or getting up, and 53.6% while sitting down or getting up from a chair. It was found that mean fear of falling scores were significantly higher in elderly individuals with chronic diseases, sleep problems...
Subject lines with three exclamation points (“!!!”) took the biggest hit, with open rates falling to a dismal 7.59%. So, if one exclamation point is spammy, then three are downright rude. For contrast, I looked at polite words, like “thank you”, “please”, and “sorry,” to ...
Right before someone drifts off to sleep, they might suddenly experience the sensation of falling. Then, the body suddenly jerks and jolts them awake. The exact cause of hypnic jerks isn’t known, but one theory states that thenatural slow-down of the nervous systemcauses the body to twitch...
One of the world’s oldest building materials is bamboo. Like today, people use it because it’s very strong. They used it to build houses, boats, and bridges. The Chinese made a bamboo bridge over the Min River in Sichuan, China almost 1000 years ago. 4. Also, bamboo is still use...
Albert Einstein’s quote is often invoked in this context: “If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.” I absolutely support this point of view. I like to argue that you can’t successfu...
Hope and love are popular themes of literature and art in many human societies. The human physiology of love and hope is less well understood. This review presents evidence that the lack of love and/or hope delays growth disturbs development and maturati
13.It is sad but true that people die in earthquakes(61)fromfalling furniture and bricks.Earthquake(62)safety(safe) is very important and there is more to it(63)thanjust keeping buildings from falling down.So if your home is in an earthquake area,you should prepare carefully before the ear...