Former 1980s teen movie actor and heartthrob Corey Haim died early Wednesday, authorities said.Haim, 38, was taken to Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, where he was pronounced dead at 2:15 a.m. PT (5:15 a.m. ET), Los Angeles Cou...
My Hometown My home is in a town. It lies in the east of Zhejiang near the East SeA.It has a population of fifty thousand. Our town is in the south of our county.The Ease Sea is to the east of the town. To the south is flat land. Mountains are on the wes...
写作要点:1.自尊心及其重要性;2.自尊心强的人会……,自尊心不强的人会……3.我的建议。[写作导航]首先采用定义法指出什么是自尊,以及自尊的重要性;第二段可举例说明自尊程度不同,表现也明显不同,成就也会不同;第三段结尾,指出如何获得自...
Depending on extended unemployment benefits to see you through the Great Recession? You'd better not: The Senate failed to push back the Feb. 28 deadline to apply for this safety net. Facebook Digg Twitter Buzz Up! Email Print Comment on this storyStartin...
Hundreds of Cuban government supporters have heckled members of the "Ladies in White" rights group marching in protest through the streets of Havana.The women - wives and mothers of jailed dissidents - are staging a week of protests on the anniv...
JERUSALEM - Israeli forces sealed off the West Bank and massed riot squads around Jerusalem's Old City and Arab neighborhoods during Muslim weekly prayers on Friday, facing down Palestinian anger over Jewish settlement expansion.After a week in which visi...
Former US Presidents George W Bush and Bill Clinton have been visiting Haiti as part of their fund-raising efforts to aid the earthquake-stricken nation.They visited camps for some of the 1.3 million homeless survivors and met President Rene Preval.They s...
Federal law enforcement officials have alerted a number of world-class athletes to expect grand jury subpoenas in the case against Canadian physician Anthony Galea, three sources familiar with the investigation tell SI.com.While it is unclear which athlet...
Air pollution levels in Hong Kong have reached a record high, prompting government warnings to people to avoid going out.The Environmental Protection Department said some Air Pollution Index readings were more than double the level at which people should...
could do to avoid being laughed at was to learn Putonghua, which is used all over China and which could help save my dignity. Every child has got a talent for learning language, as it is known to all. So in approxi mately three months I could speak Putong...
The United States dropped a record $220.9 billion further into the red in February, the Treasury Department reported Wednesday.The shortfall was up from the previous record $193.9 billion shortfall in February last year.Facebook Digg Twitter Buzz Up! Emai...
Stocks jumped Monday, with the Nasdaq and S&P 500 pushing back into positive territory for the year, as investors welcomed AIG's $35 billion asset sale and a pair of mergers in the pharmaceutical sector.Signs that a Greek bailout package is in the wor...
My hometown is a beautiful place with a pupulation of eight million.It stands beside the Gulf of Bohai. Tianjin has many high office and commercial buildings and wide tree-lined streets.Several excellent world-famous institutions of higher learning are l...
Karl Rove, often described as President George W. Bush's brain, defended the former president in a new book against claims that he lied to the American public in order to invade Iraq in 2003."[D]id Bush lie us into war? Absolutely not," Rove wro...
animals like those who are described in "The Little Prince". Or I can use my imagination, like the author, to write a book about strange things in the island. In a word, I guess I won't be very sad and feel lonely or bored if I bring this book w...
The US Federal Reserve has repeated its pledge to keep interest rates at record lows in order to nurture the economic recovery.The Fed said its main interest rate would be kept at the current 0% to 0.25% range, as widely expected.Its rate-setting committe...
An Israeli has been killed by his own forces in a border incident in which three Palestinians illegally crossing the border from Gaza were seized.The Israeli army said the Palestinians were unarmed and thought to be looking for work when they were stopped...
A series of explosions rocked southern Afghanistan's volatile Kandahar province on Saturday, killing at least 35 people and wounding 47 others, local officials said.Provincial Gov. Toryalai Wesa confirmed the blasts hit four locations.One of the explosion...
A key al-Qaeda figure wanted for a deadly attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan has been killed in a US drone strike, US officials believe.Hussein al-Yemeni, a top al-Qaeda planner, died in the strike in the city of Miranshah in Pakistan, they said.He was b...
TiVo subscribers will be able to pull Internet content, music and movies onto their televisions more easily with new devices the digital-video recorder company announced Tuesday.Called TiVo Premiere, the boxes boast Web-connected capabilities similar to w...