Ailing

China's return to the land

Why the Chinese government is hoping to lure workers back to a more rural way of life.
Quentin Sommerville reports.

From Reader's Digest February 2009, p.97-9, by David Hochman

What we lack in musicianship is offset by our willingness to humiliate ourselves.  Failing publicly is the point at Dr Banjo's Bluegrass Jam Camp, where I have come to strum alongside kindred spirits - those whose families couldn't bear the twanging anymore.

My path to musical greatness was diverted roughly 30 years ago.  At age 11, after three years of indentured servitude to my crabby piano teacher, I was at the Baldwin upright when my father and I (in matching three-piece corduroy suits, no less) sang "Heart and Soul" for the extended family.  The cheek pinching afterwards was the final straw.  I vowed never to play again.

His wealth had swelled to $3.2 billion.

This year, we celebrated ordinary citizens who unexpectedly found themselves confronted with desperate situaions and acted.

Moments before, a whoosh of air and a hail of rocks had brought a roar of black water cascading into the excavation tunnel...

香港還是有世外桃源的！

小王子是個雜誌狂，這是香港人的特性之一，每個星期固定閱讀旅遊以及電腦雜誌就像是一種強迫症似的，更像是一種每星期必須完成的一種神聖儀式。我想這和香港人必須得到第一手消息的個性有關，沒有什麼比最新的報導更刺激，因此不管是八卦雜誌、旅遊雜誌、電子雜誌、時尚雜誌或是財金雜誌總是得順應大眾的期盼情緒，每週乖乖端出牛肉餵養這群飢渴的人，讓大家繁忙緊張的生活中多一些話題可以討論。

Always on the side of the egg
By Haruki Murakami
Tags: Israel News, Haruki Murakami