News Spotlight POLITICS In a 1)rambling hour-long radio interview, Russian presidential candidate Ivan Rybkin suggested on Wednesday that for at least part of his five-day absence in Ukraine, he was h...
Cold Mountain As Anman sat 1)brooding and 2)pining for his lost self, one of Swimmer’s creekside stories rushed into his memory with a great urgency and attractiveness. Swimmer claimed that above th...
Chopin—The Beautiful Soul of Music Can Frederic Chopin, who wrote no 1)symphonies, no operas, and no 2)string quartets, who wrote only for the piano, be considered one of the greatest classical comp...
IBM Iron-Willed Watson "Tonight we’re completing a four-month worldwide tribute to the most admired man in our company. In truth I believe he’s the most admired businessman in the world. But more...
If the Dream is Big Enough I used to watch her from my kitchen window, she seemed so small as she 1)muscled her way through the crowd of boys on the playground. The school was across the street from o...
Seeking Our Outer Space Home One hundred years ago, walking on the moon was only a dream -- it is almost impossible to imagine what might happen in the next 1)millennium. We know that one day we will...
Amazing Brazilian Food Brazil offers a cuisine rich in regional variety. The extraordinary food is a 1)fusion of the cooking heritage of four main groups of people: the native Indians, the Portuguese...
Dreamlife in Rio De Janeiro “No other city on earth is more beautiful than this one and there’s hardly one that’s more confusing, you are never finished with it.” This is how the poet characte...
The Mystic's Dream A clouded dream on an 1)earthly night Hangs upon the 2)crescent moon A voiceless song in an 3)ageless light Sings at the coming dawn Birds in flight are calling there Where the hear...
The Peace of Green Green lies at the centre of the 1)spectrum and offers perfect balance. It is a harmonizing peaceful colour, the most 2)abundant colour of nature. It represents the cycle of life and...
Beauty in Skirts Throughout the decades, the skirt has undergone countless transformations. 1)Hemlines have gone up and down, but four basic styles have proven that they have what it takes to withstan...
Stars Shine at the 76th Oscars Over the years Oscar has been held on to tighter than any other arts award in the world. This heavy gold-1)plated statue has become 2)arguably more famous than many of t...
Christina: Genie in a Bottle She started out a fresh-faced 1)cutie singing and dancing on “The Mickey Mouse Club”. Today she’s a sexy 2)siren who’s turned the music world upside down and so is...
American Old-time Radio Classic Favorites A Day at the Races (I) Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, once every year Jack Benny decides to 1)tempt fate by going out to San Anita for the races. Yesterday...
Jacky’s Funny Self-Portrait Hello, my name’s Jacky Earl and I’m a bank clerk but I’ve recently been made 1)redundant, I’ve got no pension, earn nothing and I thought I’d make my life reall...