One day a father was teaching his son and said, 'The keys to your success are keeping your word and cleverness. Once you give somebody a promise, you must carry it out on matter wh...

People who sleep fewer than six hours a night are more likely to die early, researchers have found in a study they claim provides ‘unequivocal evidence‘ of a link between sleep d...

One morning a small boy squatted motionless on the grass in the garden for a long time. His mother felt so odd that she walked close to see what had happened. The boy, in earnest...

NOVELS about sport are notoriously hard to pull off. It seems somewhat odd for a literary mind to care how often a ball makes it to the back of the net or how long it takes to spri...

Some years ago on a hot summer day in south Florida a little boy decided togo for a swim in the old swimming hole behind his house.   In a hurry to dive into the cool water,h...

Why do I always could not test first in class? For long, a little boy was wondering why his next-desk-pal could rank 1st in the class whenever he wanted to, whereas he himself fa...

Once upon a time there was a poor mother who lived alone with her son, Jack. All they had in the world was an old cow to give them milk. One day the cow stopped giving milk so the ...

谁是中国古代最美的女人？约定俗成的答案是：西施、王昭君、貂蝉、杨贵妃，赫赫有名的四大美女。可是，上下五千年，漫漫历史长河，难道美人如此稀缺？当然不是。那么在姹紫嫣红的女人大观园里，...

  New York city: It‘s a cold day in December. A little boy about 10-year-old was standing in front of a shoe store on Broadway, barefooted, peering through the window, and s...

My aunt died back in about 2003. She was eighty-four and so was my uncle. When she passed he was devastated. They had been married for over 60 years. We expected him to pass on qui...