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Fly fish
In China he’s known as ‘the Flying Fish’; in America they call him ‘the Baltimore Bullet’.
Whatever you call him, American swimmer Michael Phelps looks destined to become a household name across the world after breaking the Olympic record for most gold medals in a single Games.
Phelps’s total of eight golds in Beijing put him one ahead of compatriot Mark Spitz’s previous tally set in 1972.
Michael Phelps dominated the field in seven of his races and set an amazing seven world records in the process. He did, however, have one close shave in the 100m butterfly which he won by the smallest possible margin of just 0.01 seconds, and in another he had to contend with a faulty pair of goggles.
Now people are already calling him the greatest Olympian of all time. But whether he is or not, what is it that makes Michael Phelps so good?
A good place to start might be his physique. Phelps has the perfect body shape for a swimmer: his armspan is longer than his height, he has very flexible joints, huge lungs, and his incredibly large feet (size 14 in the US, size 49 in China) act like flippers in the water.
To feed his huge swimmer’s body, Phelps eats an astonishing 12,000 calories a day, six times the average for a man of his age.
According to his coach, Phelps starts with a breakfast of champions: “Three fried egg sandwiches with cheese, tomatoes, fried onions and mayo, a five egg omelette, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast and three pancakes with chocolate chips.”
Mixed Reaction to Israeli Announcement of Partial Settlement Freeze
“I do not need a leader of the right to adopt the policy of the left,” said Eldad.
Israeli officials say Mr. Netanyahu’s concession is aimed at healing a rift between Israel and the United States. Ties grew strained after Mr. Netanyahu rejected repeated demands by the Obama administration for a complete freeze on settlement expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The prime minister’s traditional allies on the right, like Eldad, say Mr. Netanyahu compromised on the Zionist goal of settling all the biblical Land of Israel in order to appease the U.S.
“The fact that he gave up on the main issue, it’s Israel’s worst nightmare,” said Eldad.
While Mr. Netanyahu is willing to compromise on West Bank construction, he has not budged on building in disputed East Jerusalem, which he describes as the eternal and undivided capital of the State of Israel. But the Palestinians seek East Jerusalem as the capital of their future state, and they say Mr. Netanyahu has not gone far enough.
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat says Israel is trying to fool the U.S. because current construction of thousands of Jewish homes has not been frozen and will continue for years.
“What we’re worried is that Mr. Netanyahu will have a bypass road saying, ‘Okay, I have some settlements, housing units, under construction.’ So if the Americans are going to close their eyes on this, it means it’s going to take another two governments after Netanyahu to complete,” he said.
Let’s Pray for Love silently
True love is a tree in a forest,although only one,it can provide us with shelter in the rain;True love is a drop of water in the sea,although only one,it can swash the spindrifts of life;True love is a star in the vast universe,although only one,it can reflect the bright sunshine.In the novel King Lear,the auther described that the king in ancient Britain was old and weak.He decided to divide his possession into three parts and to give them to his three daughters.The eldest and second deceived their father by pretty words,and therefore,each of them got one third of the possession.But then, they maltreated King Lear to crazy,and drove him away.The little daughter couldn”t flatter her father”s misery,she at once sent soldiers to rescue him.Finally,King Lear died of craziness.
After reading King Lear,I couldn”t forget the little daughter”s philanthropy.Yesterday”s misery has gradually passed away.Our body has got warmth because of love chain.Our soul won”t be lonely any longer.Love chain leads us to the paradise of love,and gives us the warm sunshine.Let”s light up the fire of love by heart,may every pearl in love chain would be bright.
I wiped the dirt on the book softly,and reviewed Shakespear”s monumental work King Lear,then came out the call for love from the bottom of my heart.Therefore,I wrote down the words that have hidden in my heart for a long time.
Getting Apart
How time flies! Four years’colledge life has passed and it’s time to begin our clinical practise.Yesterday won’t be called again,however,what has left to me is the time i got together with my dear friends,full of encouragement,happiness,complaints,even childishness.Several scenes turn up in my mind… Watched the insects flying in the warm summer air,and listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass,sunset found my dormmates and i had a walk along the stone path inside the living area,laughing and enjoying muskmelon seeds…
I had a dorm filled with childish atmosphere,there are baby photos on the wall,sometimes my dormmates and i liked blowing bubbles in the dorm and made them everywhere…
Although getting apart from campus,I won’t forget my three dormmates.Qiu is a girl of homeliness,she has a dream to have a further study and get the master’s degree;Zheng is so forgetful that she sometimes even can’t remmember when she has taken a shower.Yang is the most lovely girl in our dorm,an easy-going girl,she is eager to have real love during her colledge life but hasn’t come true yet. Qiu and i always liked to play a joke on her.when she was taking a shower,we knocked at the bathroom’s window quietly with a long clothing fork,and this made her issue scream without knowing that was what we had done,so interesting…She never got angry with us…
Advice for Good Little Girls
Good little girls ought not to make mouths at their teachers for every trifling offense. This kind of retaliation should only be resorted to under peculiarly aggravating circumstances.
If you have nothing but a rag doll stuffed with saw-dust, while one of your more fortunate little playmates has a costly china one, you should treat her with a show of kindness, nevertheless. And you ought not to attempt to make a forcible swap with her unless your conscience would justify you in it, and you know you are able to do it.
You ought never to take your little brother’s “chawing-gum” away from him by main force; it is better to rope him in with the promise of the first two dollars and a half you find floating down the river on a grindstone. In the artless simplicity natural to his time of life, he will regard it as a perfectly fair transaction. In all ages of the world this eminently plausible fiction has lured the obtuse infant to financial ruin and disaster.
Good little girls should always show marked deference for the aged. You ought never to “sass” old people — unless they “sass” you first.
Cannibalism in the Cars
I visited St. Louis lately, and on my way west, after changing cars at Terre Haute, Indiana, a mild, benevolent-looking gentleman of about forty-five, or may be fifty, came in at one of the way-stations and sat down beside me. We talked together pleasantly on various subjects for an hour, perhaps, and I found him exceedingly intelligent and entertaining. When he learned that I was from Washington, he immediately began to ask questions about various public men, and about Congressional affairs; and I saw very shortly that I was conversing with a man who was perfectly familiar with the ins and outs of political life at the Capital, even to the ways and manners, and customs of procedure of Senators and Representatives in the Chambers of the National Legislature. Presently two men halted near us for a single moment, and one said to the other:
I was bewildered beyond description. I did not doubt his word; I could not question a single item in a statement so stamped with the earnestness of truth as his; but its dreadful details overpowered me, and threw my thoughts into hopeless confusion. I saw the conductor looking at me. I said, “Who is that man?”
I felt inexpressibly relieved to know that I had only been listening to the harmless vagaries of a madman instead of the genuine experiences of a bloodthirsty cannibal.
Who Gave Me the Ears?
“Can I see my baby?” the happy new mother asked.
When the bundle was nestled in her arms and she moved the fold of cloth to look upon his tiny face, she gasped. The doctor turned quickly and looked out the tall hospital window. The baby had been born without ears.
Time proved that the baby’s hearing was perfect. It was only his appearance that was marred. When he rushed home from school one day and flung himself into his mother’s arms, she sighed, knowing that his life was to be a succession of heartbreaks.
He blurted out the tragedy. “A boy, a big boy…called me a freak.”
He grew up, handsome for his misfortune. A favorite with his fellow students, he might have been class president, but for that. He developed a gift, a talent for literature and music.
“But you might mingle with other young people,” his mother reproved him, but felt a kindness in her heart.
The boy’s father had a session with the family physician… “Could nothing be done?”
“I believe I could graft on a pair of outer ears, if they could be procured,” the doctor decided. Whereupon the search began for a person who would make such a sacrifice for a young man.
Two years went by. One day, his father said to the son, “You’re going to the hospital, son. Mother and I have someone who will donate the ears you need. But it’s a secret.”
The Wisdom of One Word
Isn’t it amazing how one person, sharing one idea, at the right time and place can change the course of your life s history? This is certainly what happened in my life. When I was 14, I was hitchhiking from Houston, Texas, through El Paso on my way to California. I was following my dream, journeying with the sun. I was a high school dropout with learning disabilities and was set on surfing the biggest waves in the world, first in California and then in Hawaii, where I would later live.
Upon reaching downtown El Paso, I met an old man, a bum, on the street corner. He saw me walking, stopped me and questioned me as I passed by. He asked me if I was running away from home, I suppose because I looked so young. I told him, “Not exactly, sir,” since my father had given me a ride to the freeway in Houston and given me his blessings while saying, “It is important to follow your dream and what is in your heart. Son. ”
The bum then asked me if he could buy me a cup of coffee. I told him, “No, sir, but a soda would be great.” We walked to a corner malt4 shop and sat down on a couple of swiveling stools while we enjoyed our drinks.
blog:A slave to money
Waiting at the XuanWuMenDong bus stop, I could not help shivering with cold. I had waited for the No.T4-bus for at least half an hour, while approximately five No. 7-buses which brought me to that bus stop had passed by.
The day before, the weather forecast reported that it would be -4℃~4℃. Quite nice! I felt lucky. But was it really that nice?
Why was it so cold? Had the weather forecast report made a mistake? Or did my feeling go wrong? I could not stop shivering and my feet became senseless. Looking up at the grey sky, I could do nothing but just sigh.
I was going to a shop to fetch my hairdryer, which I had ordered from the internet. I had finished the payment using online banking. Mostly in this case, people would wait at home for the courier to bring him the goods. However, I intended to argue myself into believing that I went to the shop not because I wanted to save that 8yuan of freight, but to have a look at the shop and see whether it deserve further “cooperation”.
Why did I buy the hairdryer from the internet, while it could be seen on the shelves of all super markets? Why did I keep my little room in a simplest decoration? Why did I do the cooking every day?
blog：Destiny
Saying “good luck!” when get something wonderful by chance without breaking a sweat, and “bad luck!” when encounter something very bad which ruin their life for the moment, people blame too much on their destiny.
I wonder that, since we would sometimes enjoy good luck, and sometimes we have bad luck, you can see bad luck as –n, and good luck as +n, then you plus your bad luck and good luck, you can get 0, that is, no luck.
Therefore you don’t need to bother with your destiny. What exactly affect your life is your attitude, your character and attitude or character of those who live in your world.
If you were careful enough, you would not have bumped on the cabinet; If you had made full preparation for your exam, you wouldn’t have failed to pass it; If you had known your boss very well (he is not an unreasonable guy) and tried your best to do according to his indication, you wouldn’t have been fired…
Maybe you would meet a driver who charges you more than others, and you say it is really bad luck to meet such a lack-of-knowledge jake. Well, one day you would meet a driver who takes you to a restaurant for free.
Hold any chances around you; Look around when you go across the road. You would find your destiny in your hand.
