Charles saw them both at the same time: a small white bird and the girl wheeling down the walk. The bird glided downward and rested in the grass; the girl directed the chair smooth...

  Married people are twice as likely to become obese than their single counterparts, scientists claim. Greek researchers found that married couples were more likely to becom...

An only child, a perfectly ordinary little girl in rural Wisconsin, I wanted sisters more than anything. When I turned seven, my parents made a decision that delighted me beyond me...

 The world is a large stage where all things are possible if you strive and brave to stand the painful trials and errors. Generally everyone enjoys the equal oppotunities to r...

My friend John always has something to tell me. He knows so much that young men have to have older and more worldly wise men to tell them. For instance who to trust, how to care fo...

  In the Warring States Period, there was a man in the State of Wei called Geng Lei. One day he said to the king，“I can shoot down birds by simply plucking my bowstring.‘ W...

    There was a big company located in St. Louis, Missouri. One day, after lunch, all the staff saw a poster beside the gate of the company. The poster read: “Yesterday ...

      I will never forget the lessen which Mr. Li gave us. One day Mr. Li was speaking to us in our school meeting room. He began his speech by holding up a ￥1...

  Mr. Dawson was an old grouch, and everyone in town knew it. Kids knew not to go into his yard to pick a delicious apple, even off the ground, because old Dawson, they said, ...

THE Chinese, President Grover Cleveland proclaimed in 1888, are 'an element ignorant of our constitution and laws, impossible of assimilation with our people, and dangerous to our ...