fanniefeng

@fanniefeng (46)

China • Age 42

Joined myLot 17 years ago

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Boy, Oh Boy

fanniefeng @fanniefeng (46) • China 2 Oct 07

When they're together, my five-year-old son and his cousin tend to cause mayhem. One Saturday, I put my foot down. "All right, you two," I said sternly. "No screaming, grabbing, whining, hitting, teasing, tattling, breaking toys,...

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What's your dream?

fanniefeng @fanniefeng (46) • China 30 Sep 07

Dream The school of agriculture's dean of admissions was interviewing a prospective student. "Why have you chosen this career?" he adked. "I dream of making a million dollars in farming, like my father," the student...

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Disconcerting

fanniefeng @fanniefeng (46) • China 30 Sep 07

I had been trying to get my friend Mike-a rock'n roll fan-interested in classical music. When I offered to purchase tickets to a Mozart festival, he willingly agreed to accompany me and seemed to enjoy the symphony. After the...

A Dream Laboratory at the University of Chicago

fanniefeng @fanniefeng (46) • China 29 Sep 07

A unique laboratory at the University of Chicago is busy only at night. It is a dream laboratory where researchers are at work studying dreamers. Their findings have revealed that everyone dreams from three to seven times a night,...

Giant panda Yang Yang delivers a cub

fanniefeng @fanniefeng (46) • China 28 Sep 07

One-month-old cub of giant panda Yang Yang rests in the zoo in Vienna September 26,2007. The cub was born on August 23, 127 days after panda couple Yang Yang and Long Hui mated in April, the zoo said. The pandas were transferred...

What Color

fanniefeng @fanniefeng (46) • China 27 Sep 07

An impoverished graduate student at Clemson University in South Carolina, I was excited when my father informed me that he had bought me a car. Hardly able to contain my enthusiasm, I asked Dad the typical questions:"what kind is...

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Wedding or Not

fanniefeng @fanniefeng (46) • China 27 Sep 07

Uncle Frank, at 79, was a healthy and wealthy man, alifelong bachelor. He courted a lot, he said, but "never boiled over-just sinnered." On a whim, he decided to take a trio around the country to look up nearly a dozen old...

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How the Falls of Iguassu Was Discovered

fanniefeng @fanniefeng (46) • China 26 Sep 07

In 1542, Alvar Cabeza de Vaca and his small band of soldiers guided their boats down a jungle river. It was the Iguassu, which now marks the boundary between Brazil and Argentina. Never had the explorers seen a river so...

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The Antarctic, a Desert of Ice All Year Round

fanniefeng @fanniefeng (46) • China 26 Sep 07

The Antarctic is actually a desert. It is the only continent on the eatth without a river or a lake. The Ahtarctic is all ice all year round. The Warmest temperature ever recorded there is zero, at the South Pole. Explorers used...

Diamonds in the United States

fanniefeng @fanniefeng (46) • China 26 Sep 07

Most of the world's diamonds come from Africa, but there is one place in the United States where they are found. It is near Murfreesboro, Arkansas. Diamonds were first found near Murfreesboro in 1906. About fifty thousand...

The Last Part of This Century, an Age of Exploration

fanniefeng @fanniefeng (46) • China 26 Sep 07

The last part of this century will be an age of exploration such as man has never known. There are eight planets, at least thirty moons, and thousands of asteroids to be explored. Their total area is about 250 times that of the...

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Ballet, a Combination of Four Arts

fanniefeng @fanniefeng (46) • China 26 Sep 07

Although the first thing that comes to mind when we hear the word ballet is a graceful ballerina gliding across the stage, the ballet is not just dancing. The final production is a combination of four arts: dancing, music, drama...

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The Best Season for Thinking

fanniefeng @fanniefeng (46) • China 25 Sep 07

If you are like most people, your intelligence varies from season to season. You ate probably a lot sharper in the spring than you are at any other time of year. A noted scientist, Ellsworth Huntington (1876-1947), concluded from...

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The Grand Banks, the Richest Fishing Ground in the World

fanniefeng @fanniefeng (46) • China 25 Sep 07

John and Sebastian Cabot sailed back across the North Atlantic with bad news for their patron, King Henry VII of England. Instead of a short sea route to Japan and India, they had found only rocky, icy coasts. It was as a mere...

The Mid-Autumn Festival

fanniefeng @fanniefeng (46) • China 24 Sep 07

The Mid-Autumn Festival has all interesting history, Long ago in one of the dynasties of China there was a king who was very cruel to the people and did not manage the country well. The people were so angry that some brave ones...

Italian men are now letting their mothers choose their future wives live on TV

fanniefeng @fanniefeng (46) • China 24 Sep 07

Often seen as mommy's boys, Italian men are now letting their mothers choose their future wives live on television. Italy's state TV aired the first episode of a new reality show this week in which the mothers of five single men...

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How do you learn English?

fanniefeng @fanniefeng (46) • China 24 Sep 07

Dear friends, what's your native language? If not English, tell us how do you learn English. Read the book, see the movie, and other ways. Let's get together to discuss it.

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How do I love thee---It is the poem I like the best

fanniefeng @fanniefeng (46) • China 24 Sep 07

How do I love thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning(1806-1861) How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and...

Which place do you prefer in China?

fanniefeng @fanniefeng (46) • China 23 Sep 07

I'm Chinese. There are many historic spots and interest places in China. Which place do you prefer in China? Why? Thank you very much! :)

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English name

fanniefeng @fanniefeng (46) • China 19 Sep 07

I'm Chinese. My English name is Fannie, but I don't like it. Please give a name? Thank you very much! I hope that the first letter is F. :)

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