>We should accelerate the transaction of science and technological advances into productive forces, and make vigorous efforts to train people in various fields at d
We were standing at the top of a church tower. My father had brought me to this spot in a small Italian town not far from our home in Rome. I wondered why.
“Look down, Elsa,” Father said. I gat
When I was growing up, I was embarrassed to be seen with my father. He was severely crippled and very short, and when we would walk together, his hand on my arm for balance, people would stare. I would inwardly
Although neither or them remembered the occasion, Diana first met her future husband when she was just a baby. It happened during the winter of 1961, when twelve-year-old Charles, Prince of Wales, was visiting
Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying to earn money in order to pay the high tuition for my brother and me. They don't act in the romantic ways t
A summit dominated by trade could get frosty
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Failure to reform a bloated civil service is putting the country's huge economic achievements at risk
“THE tiger is under grave threat,” India's finance minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, intoned a
China's foreign reserves are growing at a staggering rate
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50 things that really matter
In my opinion, these things matter…
1. Listening enough to care and caring enough to listen.
2. Being a dreamer but not living in a dream world.
3. Saying "It doesn't matter
Sure, we all know how to do nothing. We all know how to lay around and waste time. But many of us are too busy to do it much, and when we do it, our minds are often on other things. We cannot relax and enjoy
