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• 1.Recycling scrap metal into money
• This is the VOA Special English Development Report. People have been recycling metals for hundreds of years. Today, re-using metal waste or scrap prov...
• 2.Liu's parents feeling the heat
• Liu Xiang's parents are under as much pressure as their son as he prepares to defend his Olympic 110 m hurdles crown, the couple said yesterday. We tr...
• 3.Beating a path to the Bird's Nest
• Ma Cunming has been counting down to the Olympics for the last year, ever since he discovered he would be performing at the Bird's Nest on the opening...
• 4.US knows the score now: China game will be huge
• When Charles Barkley was asked in 1992 if he knew anything about Angola, the US basketball team's first Olympic opponent, he famously replied: I don't...
• 5.Top guards for elite visitors
• They are proficient in hand-to-hand combat, firefighting, tactical maneuvers and first aid. They speak English fluently and are familiar with internat...
• 6.China-Australia trade ties robust
• Riding 16 years of uninterrupted economic growth, Australia continues to capitalize on a string of advantages to consolidate a long and profitable rel...
• 7.Day 1 is more than just song and dance
• The names of the artists who will lend their voice to the theme song of the Olympic Games opening ceremony are out. World pop-opera star Sarah Brightm...
• 8.Hiroshima atomic bomb anniversary remembered
• Tens of thousands bowed their heads at a ceremony in the Japanese city of Hiroshima yesterday, the 63rd anniversary of the world's first atomic attack...
• 9.HIV/AIDS travel ban to be lifted
• China is likely to lift its two-decade-old ban on people with HIV/AIDS entering the country some time next year, said a top Chinese health official ye...
• 10.08-08-08, the magical wedding date
• More than 16,400 Beijing couples have applied to have their marriages registered on the auspicious date of Aug. 8, 2008, the municipal bureau of civil...