Disney World, Florida, is the biggest amusement resort in the world. It covers 24.4 thousand acres, and is twice the size of Manhattan. It was opened on October 1 1971, five years after Walt Disneys death, and it is a larger, slightly more ambitious...
Arthritis all-clear for high heels Fears that wearing high-heeled shoes could lead to knee arthritis are unfounded,say researchers. But being overweight,smoking,and having a previous knee injury does increase the risk,the team from Oxford Brookes Uni...
All I wanted was a cozy log cabin in the state of Maine, somewhere deep in the woods, to hang out under the stars. It was to be my first vacation with my boyfriend, and I wanted it to be perfect. So rather than waste money on a guidebook that was bou...
Rick Stevenson, 16 years old, spends every minute he can on the mountain. He and his friends go snow-boarding every weekend. It's incredible, he says. The winds are so strong, the boards go 50 miles an hour. His friend Laura Fields agrees. No one goe...
The one American industry unaffeted by the general depression of trade is the beauty industry. American women continue to spend on their faces and bodies as much as they spent before the coming of the slump--about three million pounds a week. These f...
A form of alien civilisation has finally landed in Paris - unfamiliar green and black signs have appeared on the Avenue de L'Opera. It is the first Starbucks cafe to boldly go where no Starbucks has gone before, onto potentially hostile French territ...
I like the subtle fresh green budding from the branches of the tree -- the herald（先驱） of spring, ushering in（领进） the dawn... I like the subtle flow of cloud that makes the sky seem even more vast, azure（蔚蓝的） and immense... I...
Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift. When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long...
Though there is much to be concerned about, there is far, far more for which to be thankful. Though life's goodness can at times be overshadowed（使失色） , it is never outweighed. For every single act that is senselessly destructive, there are...
We were standing at the top of a church tower. My father had brought me to this spot in a small Italian town not far from our home in Rome. I wondered why. Look down, Elsa, Father said. I gathered all my courage and looked down. I saw the square in t...
