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PEOPLE might normally associate fingerprint scanners with police stations or security units, where they are used to detect and track down criminals. But now they are appearing on school entrance gates in Shanghai.
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- Overqualified for love
LI Fei faces a hard choice. On the one hand, her good academic performance during the past two years?study for a master¡¯s degree has won her a chance to pursue a PhD directly. Yet on the other, almost all her friends are trying to persuade her to quit further study.
- Moixed ambitions
AT the beginning and end of each Spring Festival since the mid-1980s, the impressive scene of migrant workers pouring into the railway stations and bus stations of all big cities has been one of the top news images in the media. When recent pictures are compared with those from earlier periods, careful observers may notice an increase in the proportion of women¡¯s faces among the migrant travellers.
- Schools under siege
PEOPLE might normally associate fingerprint scanners with police stations or security units, where they are used to detect and track down criminals. But now they are appearing on school entrance gates in Shanghai.
- Kidnap victim could suffer effects of ordeal for some time
A MIGRANT worker from China¡¯s central Henan Province held hostage a six-year-old pupil in Shanghai Jiangning School on February 24, after he was caught trying to steal something in the school.
- Chinese gift to US volleyball
A SYMBOL of the 1980s. A spiritual leader of the Chinese Women¡¯s volleyball Team and of tens of thousands of fans. A heroine who won four world championships for the team. And also a team builder who lifted a sluggish Chinese Women¡¯s Volleyball Team to runner-up of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and recovered the team¡¯s former respect.
- All-time legend
AS a core player and one of the nation¡¯s most respected volleyball players, Lang Ping, 45, won every major event while serving as a player for the Chinese Women¡¯s Volleyball Team in the 1980s.
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- Reluctant retreat
BEIRUT ?¡°People power?may have forced Lebanon¡¯s government to stand down but popular opposition is unlikely to sweep away the entire Syrian-backed system, analysts said.
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- Traditions help maintain harmonious relations
The Chinese Government has made it a goal to build a harmonious society, a great task requiring the concerted effort of everyone. Obviously, the basis of such a society lies with individuals, and the maintenance of harmony in interpersonal and inter-group relationships is essential for social harmony.
- Overheating anxieties
Over the last year or so, business news in China has been overshadowed by the concerted policy effort to achieve a ¡°soft landing?for the country¡¯s surging economy. Due to a complex mixture of political and economic factors, the now typical national growth rate ?nudging (and in dynamic regions comfortably exceeding) 10 per cent ?has become, from certain perspectives, almost an object of terror. Is Chinese economic growth escaping the grip of policy-makers, requiring ever tighter ¡°macroeconomic controls?to lower it to a less disturbing level ?perhaps one conforming to a growth rate of approximately 7 per cent?
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- Flamboyant declarations don't guarantee love
A couple of years ago, a young college student spent several hundred yuan, a huge sum for a student at that time, to buy a Coke and candies for every girl in the dormitory across from his, and arranged for their room lights to be turned on at the appointed moment to make the shape of a heart. The boy hoped to win the heart of the girl he loved by employing this spectacular way of courtship. It was a small thing. But it was just the beginning.
- A bite from God
¡°The Thousand-hand Kwanyin? a dance performed by 21 deaf and mute women, won unanimous applause at this year¡¯s Spring Festival Gala on TV. It was later voted the best performance by viewers. I believe this award was granted not out of the audience¡¯s sympathy for the disabled performers but as a true compliment and sign of respect for them. Our eyes were caught and our hearts deeply touched when the vivid thousand-hand Kwanyin appeared before us with each beautiful move of their fingers and bodies. What a marvellous scene they made!
- Voices
¡°By 2001, China was lagging behind the United States and six other developed countries by about 100 years.?
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- `Mediterranean' Mama
AS Haya Ronen prepared to open her family¡¯s Mediterranean restaurant last year, some things fell neatly into place: a small storefront in Gubei, fresh pita bread from her husband¡¯s nearby bakery, recipes from her native Israel and her own lifelong love of cooking.
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- Sizzling Japanese style
A GEOMANCER said if the gate of the Shao Rou Yi Ding restaurant could be turned to face in another direction, the restaurant would escape the bad fortune of its predecessor.
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