Farewell, Concorde 1 The Concorde bowed out 2 with a spectacular triple landing finale 3 , closing an era of supersonic passenger travel and leaving the skies to the slower, cheaper jets that proved t...
The Language of Flowers Every flower tells a story. A red rose given to a true love, a daisy peeking out of a buttonhole, a bundle of violets handed demurely 1 to a crush 2 each conveys a different se...
Learn English for the 2008 Olympics The Younger Generation Foreigner: At present, China is the fastest developing country in the world. Your sustained fast economic growth has never been rivaled 1 in...
Dashan’s Feeling about Language Learning Zhao Wei: You have been in China for so many years, what’s your feeling about living in China? Do you enjoy it? Dashan: Well, actually, I lived in China fu...
Battling Against Depression “I was demoted 1 and demoted and demoted,” says Betty Whelan of how her depression affected her job. “I was lying in bed all day watching the clock go round and hatin...
Legionnaires' Disease 1 Legionnaires' disease is a serious and sometimes fatal form of pneumonia 2 . Legionnaires' disease is caused by infection with Legionella bacteria which are found naturally in...
Home in Space -- The International Space Station In 1984 the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced a new program to establish a permanent space station, called Freedom. I...
Autobiography of Nobel Prize Winner: Sidney Altman I was born in Montreal 1 in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants. My mother worked in a textile mill 2 and my father in a grocery store before the...
The English Like Tea Foreigners may scoff 1 , marketing men may try to seduce with alternatives, but the English still carry on doggedly 2 in their devotion to what they consider to be one of the few...
Under The Whether 1 It has been so bitterly cold here in Pennsylvania. I can't remember a winter being as cold as this, but I'm sure there were colder days. Even though the daylight hours are growing...
