BEIJING, Aug. 20 (Xinhuanet) -- With an Internet population larger than that of the United States and Japan combined, China saw its online shopping maintain an annual growth of 140 percent in sales since 2004, making it a powerhouse in driving up dom...
Students Pursuit for Famous Brands Nowadays many college students like to pursue famous brands. From clothes to mobile phones, even study articles like electronic dictionaries and pens, they are inclined to buy famous brands. Moreover, many students...
President Obamas back on the frontlines of the oil spill; this time it's Alabama. He's in Theodore, one of the Gulf Coast's largest staging areas to stockpile and ship out supplies. We are minimizing the short-term impacts, and we're making sure that...
Happy sounds, glorious weather and almost flawless organization. But did the feel good factor of Germany's World Cup last longer than the summer of 2006? In economic terms, apparently not. Germany has a large economy and such an event is a -- a very...
Smitha Raghunathan | Washington, DC 25 June 2010 Harvard researchers found that white rice consumption increases the risk of Type 2 diabetes while brown rice consumption actually reduces the risk. Reducing your risk of diabetes may be as simple as ha...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Sometimes its not what you eat, but when you eat it. At least when it comes to longevity diets. For some time, scientists have known that animals kept on...