日期：2008-01-30 A high school in the southern US state of Georgia is offering students who are weak in math and science eight dollars an hour to go to study hall and review their pet peeve subjects. We started on Tuesday. The kids are very enthusiastic, Mike Robins... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-30 More than half of teachers in a UK survey said they thought plagiarism from the Internet is a problem. Some students who steal essays wholesale from the Web, they said, are so lazy they don't even bother to take the adverts off the cut-and-pasted te... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-30 The little blue cartoon Smurfs are planning to celebrate their 50th birthday this year with a new TV series, books and a film, their human promoters said Monday. Throughout 2008, 20 European cities will be flooded by the minute characters only three... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-30 Brits really don't mind telling fibs, for not only does the average Brit man lie five times a day, but the women too lie at least thrice a day. Nothing's wrong - I'm fine, is the most frequent, with 28 per cent of those interviewed saying it was the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-30 You are never too old to learn. This is never too right for a man who started his ballet dream at the age of 79. An 88-YEAR-OLD man starred in his first ballet production Sunday after learning to dance at the tender age of 79. Retired teacher John L... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-30 A private British college is starting compulsory etiquette classes for 13- to 14-year-olds to sharpen up their comportment in a world of ill-mannered informality, itwas reported on Wednesday. A private British college is starting compulsory etiquett... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-30 Britons are the world's biggest fans of fast food, just ahead of Americans, while the famously gastronomic French are the least attracted to quick meals, according to a study published last week. The survey of 13 countries also confirmed growing con... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-23 Daniel Peart stands next to a 'for sale' sign in front of his home in Poway, Calif., in this March 22, 2007 Used to describe a risky loan, 'subprime' has been chosen as the Word of the Year 2007 by American Dialect Society at its annual convention F... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-12 Bush, Hillary Clinton most admired in America They're the odd couple again: George Bush and Hillary Clinton, the most admired man and woman in America. Though they stand on opposite sides of a political divide, the Republican president and the Democ... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-08 Katie Holmes named as 2007's Most Stylish Star Katie Holmes has been voted the Most Stylish Star of 2007. The stunning actress, who is married to Tom Cruise, has topped a poll conducted by America's OK! magazine to find the most fashionable celebrit... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-05 Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are the Couple of the Year Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have been crowned Couple of the Year by Us Weekly magazine. The pair - who have three adopted children, Maddox, six, Pax, four, and two-year-old Zahara, and biologi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-04 A still from 'The Sound of Music' (1965). [Agencies] 1960's classic The Sound of Music has been named the 'Greatest Musical of All Time' in a new poll. The 1965 film, starring Julie Andrews, got 15 per cent of the vote in the Twentieth Century Fox p... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-02 David Beckham of the LA Galaxy is pictured here after an exhibition match in Wellington, on December 1. Fans of football superstar David Beckham are cashing in on his recent visit to New Zealand by trying to sell his food scraps and dirty dishes on... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-02 Britney Spears Love her or hate her, Britney Spears fascinated people in 2007 with the disgraced pop princess heading a list of the top 10 searches on Yahoo! again. Spears, who turned 26 on Sunday, continued to draw attention as she shaved her head,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-29 Chinanews, Wuhan, December 29 According to a survey conducted in the Wuhan University, most students complain about their instructors spending too much more time on their research projects than on teaching or communication with students. This impetu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-29 Chinanews, Beijing, Dec. 27 Currently many elderly people in Beijing become enthusiastic for English learning, hoping do their bit for the upcoming Olympics, when large number of foreign visitors will come to Beijing from abroad. Pei Suran, 60, said... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-26 SHANGHAI, Dec.25 - Fudan University has publicly shamed nine teachers and students for their involvement in three separate cases of plagiarism, a first in the school's history. The Scholarly Standard Committee released a circular detailing their mis... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-26 Chinanews, Beijing, December 24 Western-style food, going Dutch while dining out with friends in restaurants, drinking coffee and other symbols of the Western-style life have become daily habit of many Chinese youths today, according to a joint surv... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-26 Chinanews, Beijing, Dec. 24 In recent years, Chinese customs offices have tracked down a number of antiques smuggling cases. The cases show that antique smuggling has displayed some new trends these days while most antiques were taken abroad intermi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-24 The egg-shaped futuristic National Center for the Performing Arts of China was officially opened with senior Communist Party leader Li Changchun and other officials at present at the inaugural concert, Beijing, Dec. 22, 2007. BEIJING, Dec. 23 - The... 阅读全文>>