China’s Leader Pushes Overhaul of the Military
By JANE PERLEZ and CHRIS BUCKLEY
President Xi Jinping of China wants a military that can project power across the Pacific and face regional rivals like Japan.
Who on earth cares what processor is inside a phone-as long as the phone feels fast? And the Lumia 900 feels fast. It shouldn't matter if the phone has a Snapdragon, a dual core or a hamster wheel.
There's a reason President Obama name-dropped Costco during last night's speech.
Q. & A. With Stuart Elliott
Why does the Kia Soul television ad use stuffed rodents - hamsters? ferrets? - driving the vehicle?
Zhu Zhu Mania: Hamster Toys Are Ruling Christmas
Electronic toy hamsters called Zhu Zhu Pets are the breakout hit of the holiday season. Why the fuzzy creatures will clean up at the cash registerhamster
n.
A small Eurasian rodent of the subfamily Cricetinae, especially Mesocricetus auratus, having large cheek pouches and a short tail and often kept as a pet or used in laboratory research.
[German, from Middle High German hamastra, perhaps from Old High German hamustro, of Slavic origin.]
Alaska's Rat Island is finally rat-free, 229 years after a Japanese shipwreck spilled rampaging rodents onto the remote Aleutian island, virtually destroying the bird population.
After dropping poison from helicopters for a week and a half last autumn, there are no signs of rat life, and some birds have returned, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports.
Rats have ruled the island since 1780, when they jumped off a sinking Japanese ship and terrorized all but the largest birds on the island. The incident introduced the nonnative Norway rat -- also known as the brown rat -- to Alaska.
The $2.5-million Rat Island eradication project, a joint effort of the federal government, the Nature Conservancy and Island Conservation, is one of the world's most ambitious attempts to remove destructive alien species from an island.
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Spectrum | 16.03.2010 | 17:30
Creating the power of the sun in a hamster wheel
Some 60 kilometers (37.3 miles) northeast of the French city of Marseille stands the site where scientists hope to make nuclear fusion a reality. An international consortium plans to build the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, or ITER, which also happens to be Latin for ‘the way’. By 2018 they hope to use this reactor to create energy, similar to the way it’s created on the sun.
But actually creating a functional fusion reactor is a herculean task. ITER will only be able to run for a few minutes, due to the current fusion technology available. So while a few minutes of nuclear fusion energy is impressive, it doesn’t really do us a whole lot of good in the grander scheme of things.
So scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in the German city of Greifswald have begun experimenting with a technical alternative. A prototype should be up and running by 2014 that is meant to prove that nuclear fusion reactors can be operated continuously.
Encyclopaedia Britannica said it would stop printing its namesake books, a sign of how readers in recent years have abandoned printed reference volumes for websites such as Wikipedia and Google.
Conductor Ingo Metzmacher reflects on bringing Nietzsche 尼采 to the stage
From conducting a Nietzschean opera at the Salzburg Festival to hosting
concerts in Berlin in jeans, Ingo Metzmacher is known for innovative
projects. He talked with DW about what inspires his work.
The DW-WORLD.DE Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/
project
項目=中國/專案 =台灣
in view
1. Also, within view. Visible, in sight, as in The end of the project is in view, or The mountains are just within view. [Mid-1500s]
2. Under consideration, as in Let's keep this suggestion in view while we talk about the project. [Mid-1600s]
3. As an end or goal one aims at. For example, With the coming election in view, we should present a united front on the issues. [Early 1700s] Also see in view of.
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Conductor Ingo Metzmacher reflects on bringing Nietzsche 尼采 to the stage
From conducting a Nietzschean opera at the Salzburg Festival to hosting
concerts in Berlin in jeans, Ingo Metzmacher is known for innovative
projects. He talked with DW about what inspires his work.
The DW-WORLD.DE Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/
project
項目=中國/專案 =台灣
in view
1. Also, within view. Visible, in sight, as in The end of the project is in view, or The mountains are just within view. [Mid-1500s]
2. Under consideration, as in Let's keep this suggestion in view while we talk about the project. [Mid-1600s]
3. As an end or goal one aims at. For example, With the coming election in view, we should present a united front on the issues. [Early 1700s] Also see in view of.
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name-drop
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Pronunciation: /ˈprɒdʒɛkt/
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Pronunciation: /prəˈdʒɛkt/
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[名]((通例one's 〜))他と同名の［他にちなんで名づけられた］人［物］. ▼当人よりも有名な人をさす
his namesake
彼と同名の人.
彼と同名の人.
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