So, remember this: if you want to enjoy your vacation, take good care of yourself.
Give your body some rest. Get enough sleep and eat healthy food.
Like the five Olympic rings, Fuwa will serve as the official mascots of
the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
They carry a message of friendship, peace, and good wishes from China to
children all over the world.
Fuwa are five little children who form a circle of friends. Fuwa also mean four
of China's most popular animals:
the fish, the panda, the Tibetan antelope, and the swallow.
In the middle of them stands the Olympic flame.
Each of Fuwa has an interesting name. These five names show love for children
in a traditional Chinese way by repeating a sound. y
Beibei is the Fish, Jingjing is the Panda, Huanhuan is the Olympic Flame,
Yingying is the Tibetan Antelope, and Nini is the Swallow.
When you put their names together --
Bei Jing Huan Ying Ni -- they say "Welcome to Beijing",
offering a warm invitation to the whole world.
Fuwa also express a meaning of the Chinese land, and dreams of people
from every part of the country. In their headpieces, you can see the five traditional
colors for nature. They are for the sea, forest, fire, earth, and sky.
"Picnic on the Banks of the Marne," shows a working-class family enjoying a picnic,
innocently unaware of the camera's presence.
"In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick,
like an animal and a prey," Cartier-Bresson said in a rare filmed
interview accompanying a 1979 exhibit of his works.
"And you have to try to put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt."
As a young man, Cartier-Bresson wanted to become a painter
and studied in Paris with Cubist Andre Lohte and Jacques
Emile Blanche, continuing to draw and paint throughout his life.
In 1935, he studied film-making in the United States.
On his return to France he collaborated with Jean Renoir,
son of the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in making
"La Regle du Jeu" and "Partie de Campagne," two outstanding pre-war French films.
In 1937, he made the documentary "Victoire de la Vie"
on civil-war Spain, but the outbreak of World War II interrupted his film-making career.
He directed one more documentary in 1944,
but then turned wholeheartedly to still photography.
The son of a rich industrialist, Henri Cartier-Bresson was born in Chanteloup,
near Paris, on Aug. 22, 1908.
He began taking pictures with a simple box camera in the 1930s.
In World War II he spent three years in a German prison camp.
He escaped twice, was caught, and then escaped again.
He joined the French resistance and helped others to escape.
The publication in 1952 of "Images a la Sauvette" ("The Decisive Moment")
marked the height of his technique, although he published
many collections such as "China in Transition,"
"The People of Moscow," "Balinese Dancers" and "The Europeans."
You say, "Nobody really loves me."
God says, "I love you."
You say, "I can't do it."
God says, "You can do all things."
You say, "I can't forgive myself."
God says, "I forgive you."
They may show emotions, but they don't feel them,"
Professor Steels says. "I want to change that."
"Robots will be more like humans in the future,"
Professor Steels says. "But most will still only do jobs people can't do,
or don't want to do. Robots never get bored, tired or scared.
So they are perfect for working in factories and in dangerous places."
Will robots take over the world? Most scientists don't think this
will happen, at least until robots can think! If a robot can't think,
it can only do things it's told to by people. So don't worry now!
James Stillman Rockefeller, the oldest-known U.S.
Olympic medal winner and the former head of the
bank that became Citigroup, died Tuesday. He was 102.
Rockefeller suffered a stroke on Thursday, said his grandson,
Stillman, who lived with him at his Greenwich home.
Records of the U.S. Olympic Committee show that
Rockefeller was the oldest American medal winner, a USOC spokeswoman said.
He was the captain of Yale University's eight-man rowing
team with coxswain that won gold at the 1924 Paris
Olympics - beating the Canadian team by less than 16 seconds.
The oars from the winning race and the gold
medal were prominently displayed in Rockefeller's house, Stillman Rockefeller said.
"I think he was really proud of that - probably
more than the bank career," his grandson said.
Rockefeller was in good health until shortly before he died.
He drove his car up until last year and would review documents
from the various charities and businesses he helped lead, his grandson said.
Rockefeller, born June 8, 1902, was a grandson of William Rockefeller,
who founded Standard Oil with his brother, John D. Rockefeller.
He graduated from Yale in 1924 and served in the Airborne Command
during World War II.
Rockefeller started at the bank, then called the National City Bank,
in 1930, following his uncle and grandfather, who were leaders of the bank.
He was became president in 1952, chairman in 1959 and retired in 1967.
In 1955, under Rockefeller's leadership, the bank merged with
the First National Bank of New York to form Citigroup.