I had just returned from an income tax audit with the Internal Revenue Service, which everyone agrees is as pleasant as a bad session in the dentist's chair. The audit had gone well, but I was relieved it was over. To celebrate I bought an ice cream...
NASDAQ, acronym for the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation system, is one of the largest markets in the world for the trading of stocks. The number of companies listed on NASDAQ is more than that on any of the other stock...
My love is like the grasses Hidden in the deep mountains. Though its abundance increase, There is none that knows. 我的爱情 犹如青草，藏在深山。 它郁郁葱葱，却无人知晓。 I have been sleeping all alone, You have been staring...
寒暑表降到冰点下十八度的时候，我们也是在廊下睡觉。每夜最熟识的就是天上的星辰了。也不过是点点闪烁的光明，而相看惯了，偶然不见，也有些想望与无聊。 连夜雨雪，一点星光都看不...
Unencrypted messages can be hijacked in transit and read or altered．If the mail is not digitally signed，you can't be sure where it came from． 未加密的信息可能在传输中被截获、偷看或窜改。如果邮件不是数字签名的，你...
Sugar-It Could Age You 吃糖一向被视为肥胖者的大忌，除此以外，一般读者可能还知道吃糖与蛀牙、与某些心血管疾病的关系。可你是否想到过吃糖与人的衰老也有关系呢？本文则报道了这方面的最...
The Music Within Life...What is it? See it in the colors of autumn, A gentle snowfall in winter, A sudden shower in spring, The radiance of a summer day. Behold it in the laughter Of the young and the old. Know of it in a surge of hope, The blessings...
I plucked a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn, And climbing for the prize, was torn, And fouled my feet in quag-water; And by the thorns and by the wind The blossom that I took was thinn'd, And yet I found it sweet and fair. The...
STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment, and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and pe...
The word not spoken goes not quite unheard. It lingers in the eye, in the semi-arch of brow. A gesture of the hand speaks pages more than words, The echo rests in the heart as driftwood does in sand, To be rubbed by time until it rots or shines. The...
The Road To Happiness It is a commonplace among moralists that you cannot get happiness by pursuing it. This is only true if you pursue it unwisely. Gamblers at Monte Carlo are pursuing money, and most of them lose it instead, but there are other way...
The Internet is a giant network of computers located all over the world that communicate with each other. The Internet is an international collection of computer networks` that all understand a standard system of addresses and commands, connected tog...
ARPANET started by the US Dept. of Defense for research.It is the original basis for what now forms the Internet.It was opened to non-military users later in the 1970s. The first international connections to ARPANET are established. The TCP/IP Protoc...
Film star Jackie Chan joined other celebrities Sunday at a meeting of China's highest-profile advisory body, a move seen by analysts as an attempt by the ruling Communist Party to cultivate soft power. 在上周日开幕的政协会议上，人们不仅...
This week marks the start of annual plenary session of the National People's Congress (NPC) in China. 本周，第十二届全国人民代表大会第一次会议将在北京开幕。 The NPC is expected to vote on two key measures. 据预计，本届人...
