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SURFING and swimming have become the hottest sports for summer days, but what should one wear on the beach? That's the key problem for most fashionable sunseekers. The look that is "in" on the beach this year is bold, bright and definitely not for wimps.
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- German film's political message sets Cannes abuzz
A GERMAN film about a group of youths who dream of changing the world won a 10-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival last Monday, making it the front-runner for the Palme d'Or best film award.
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- 'Beach chic' makes waves
SURFING and swimming have become the hottest sports for summer days, but what should one wear on the beach? That's the key problem for most fashionable sunseekers. The look that is "in" on the beach this year is bold, bright and definitely not for wimps.
- Urban fabric
ORGANIZED by the Universal Music Group and the Shanghai Media Group, a competition named "Lycra, My Style, My Show" is being launched around the country from April to August, with the aim of discovering new stars who are sexy, fashionable, confident and happy.
- Urban fabric
The 83rd World Fabrics Conference will be held in Shanghai Mart from May 23 to 27. It will be the first opportunity for China to host this international fabrics conference, which is the most prestigious meeting in the field.
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- MISS - cutting-edge spinal surgery
A PREVIOUSLY risky and traumatic, hours-long, major operation on the spine which also required several days of recovery has now been turned into a short (usually half-hour) outpatient procedure.
- War on fake drugs heats up
WEBSITE pharmacies providing unbelievably cheap drugs, capsules of traditional Chinese medicines containing the active component of Viagra to improve men's sexual ability - these are some of the new tricks used by counterfeit drugmakers.
- Dads deliver more than DNA
LONDON - Men can breathe a sigh of relief. Despite the spectre of cloning and the birth of a fatherless mouse, scientists have uncovered evidence that men play a more vital role in procreation than they may have thought.
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Pollution harm
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- Too tall to be happy
ALL Leonid Stadnyk wants is a quiet, simple and inconspicuous life. But the 33-year old Ukrainian is just too tall for that.
- Educating the educators
HEADING to his first poetry class for Chinese students, Jason Carey took nothing with him except for some envelopes - no set textbooks, no conventional teaching materials. Smiles and envelopes made up the whole of his teaching aids as he walked into the classroom in the Shanghai-based Meilong Private Middle School.
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spectacle
SARAH Brightman,
the versatile singer who shifts freely between opera, musicals,
trip hop and folk songs, is to give a solo concert in Shanghai
in June. The event will be part of a global tour promoting her
new album "Harem".
- China
through a foreign lans
PHOTOssGRAPHY
has, ever since the invention of the art form, been an impressive
medium through which to reveal China and its people to foreigners.
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