14-09-26 Public support for effective road safety laws, already solid, can be strengthened by a single number: a statistic that quantifies the traffic-related injury risks associated with a given law, according to a new study from the Johns Hopkins Center fo...

14-06-20 For seven days I hurried on, resting only when the darkness stopped me, and living chiefly upon cocoanuts, which afforded me both meat and drink, and on the eighth day I reached the seashore and saw a party of white men gathering pepper, which grew...

14-01-25 Chilean engineers have been left red faced by a delay in the grand opening of the country's first-ever drawbridge - after they discovered a major part was installed upside down. 智利工程师发现即将启用的该国首座吊桥的一边桥面居然是上下颠倒的，由此引...

14-01-23 An absent-minded person was standing in the middle of a busy intersection where a policeman was directing traffic, and he kept bugging the policeman because he was confused. Excuse me, Officer! Can you tell me how to get to the hospital? The officer...

13-12-12 At the traffic fine office, the police handed a motorist a receipt for his traffic fine. The motorist must have been fined for speeding. He grumbled, What am I supposedto do with this? The clerk advised him, Keep it. When you get four of these, you...

13-10-28 Ward No. 2 Things were not so gay in Ward No. 2, for Mrs. Pecq was very busy, and Jill had nothing to amuse her but flying visits from the girls, and such little plays as she could invent for herself in bed. Fortunately, she had a lively fancy, and...

13-06-24 Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. -- Dale Carnegie If we really want to be happy, why do we act like such babies? We can claim to be proactive（有前瞻性的） in ou...

13-06-16 A new study shows that small websites, in terms of daily user flux（流量，变迁） based on number of clicks, have a disproportionally high impact when it comes to traffic generation and influence compared to larger websites. These findings, about to...

13-05-09 According to the Traffic Performance Index , which measures congestion on a scale of zero (smooth) to 10 (snarled), Beijing hit 8.5 during the evening rush hour on Wednesday and 9.1 on roads within Third Ring Road at 7 pm. 交通指数用0到10的数字来衡...

13-03-24 因报道称莫斯科一些救护车经内部改装后以高价出租为商务人士提供出行服务，莫斯科警方将于近期对救护车开展专项检查。 Police in Moscow are to carry out special checks on ambulances after reports that emergency vehicles have been fitted with plush（豪华的）...