April Fools’ Day
2001-04-01 An April fool in Denmark, regarding Copenhagen's new subway. It looks as if one of its cars had an accident, and had broken through and surfaced on the square in front of the town hall. In reality, it was a retired subway car from the subway of Stockholm cut obliquely, with the front end placed onto the tiling and loose tiles scattered around it. Note the sign "Gevalia", the coffee is known for its advertising featuring vehicles popping up: be ready for unexpected guests.
Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day
Happy Easter
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| Chicken and eggs, who came first? Do rabbits lay eggs too? |
Good Morning, Beijing
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| The title, Good Morning, Beijing, of this editorial cartoon was inspired by the 1987 movie, Good Morning, Vietnam. http://youtu.be/JLdPcqJUKA0 |
Smog pollution chokes Beijing, China air
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A man wears a mask on Tiananmen Square in thick haze in Beijing Tuesday. Extremely high pollution levels shrouded eastern China for the second time in about two weeks Tuesday, forcing airlines in Beijing and elsewhere to cancel flights because of poor visibility and prompting government warnings for residents to stay indoors. (Ng Han Guan - AP) Since January began, a nasty brew of gray and brown smog has commandeered Beijing’s air on multiple occasions, deeply compromising its air quality and slashing visibility.
CNN says you can see less than 200 feet in front of you in some spots.
Wire reports indicate air pollution levels have mostly varied between very unhealthy and hazardous over the last two weeks.
“On Tuesday, [the pollution] hit 517 on an index maintained by the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, which described the pollution as “Beyond Index”,” Reuters reported.
The Associated Press (AP) noted that PM2.5 (small particulates in the air, known to be hazardous) levels reached 526 micrograms, which is more than 20 times worse than safe levels set by the World Health Organization.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/smog-pollution-chokes-beijing-air/2013/01/29/2d5a2a48-6a3f-11e2-af53-7b2b2a7510a8_blog.html
真煩!
