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Student's Course Fee is 15 Tonne Orange

A cash-strapped college student Wu Xiaobin in paid his course fees and living expenses - with five tonnes of oranges. He lives in China.

Wu Xiaobin drove two truckloads of mandarin oranges more than 130 miles from his home on a farm in Quzhou to his college in Hangzhou.

He decided to try to sell the oranges as he couldn't otherwise afford to continue his studies at Zhejiang University of Media and Communications.

"This year my hometown had a good harvest of mandarin oranges, but due to the economic downturn and rumours of orange parasite infections, few sales could be made," said Wu.

"I spent the whole winter vacation helping my father try to sell the oranges but with little success."

Instead, his father gave him a third of their farm's 15 tonne orange harvest for him to try and sell in Hangzhou to pay for his studies.

And, thanks to local media covering his story, he sold all of the oranges within an hour of his trucks arriving on campus.

Companies bought boxes of oranges for their staff to support Wu and local families also came to buy fruit to help him stay on at college.

Missing Mobile Found Inside The Stomach Of Cod Fish

A businessman named Andrew Cheatle lost his mobile phone on a beach. He was amazed when it regained from the belly of a giant cod.He thought it had been swept out to sea after it slipped from his pocket.

But a week later his girlfriend's mobile rang and it was fisherman Glen Kerley saying he'd found the phone in a 25lb fish, reports The Sun.

Andrew got the handset back, dried it out - and amazingly it still works.

Andrew, 45, said: "I was messing about with my dog and my phone must have fallen out and been swept out in the swell. I kept calling it but I gave up hope after a couple of days."

He was shopping for a new phone with girlfriend Rita Smith, 33, when her mobile went off.

She told him: "Your old mobile number is calling my phone."

Andrew continued: "She said some guy was going on about my phone and a cod so she handed it over to me and he told me where he had found it.

"I thought he was winding me up but he assured me he had caught a cod that morning and was gutting it for his fish stall and that my Nokia was inside it - a bit worse for wear."

Glen, of Worthing, West Sussex, said: "Cod are greedy fish - they'll eat anything. They have big heads and big mouths.

"I've found plastic cups, stones, teaspoons, batteries and I've also heard of someone finding false teeth in one.

"It was a bit smelly but I was glad to return it."

Railway Station Is The Pasture Place For Cattle

A small railway station was found in China where there were so few passengers that it had become a pasture for animals.

Only two train services run from Beihai station, in Guangxi province, and they take twice as long as the bus.

The station is so quiet that cattle grazes on the grass outside, reports the Star Online. Ducks waddle around the entrance while chickens search for scraps of food.

Locals say they have got used to the rural scene and would be surprised if they didn't see any wildlife.

But Beihei is a popular tourism centre, close to renowned beaches and home to one of China's biggest aquariums.

Wang Haibo, director of the railway station, revealed: "In the past six months, we have had only 24,506 passengers. That's too few for a big railway station like this one."

Only two trains stopped at the station and the travel time to either destination was three hours.

"However, it only takes one and a half hours to travel the same distance by bus. Therefore most passengers choose to take the bus," he added.

"We are looking for ways to attract more people to take the train."

Quiz

A man meets two men at two doors.

A sign above the two doors says, "One door leads to eternal bliss, while one leads to certain peril.

One of these men always lies, while one always tells the truth."

You may ask only one question.

What question do you ask to be certain that you get to the room with eternal bliss?

Answer : He asks them, "If I ask the other man which way to go, what would his answer be?" They would both answer in the same way. Whatever the answer is, go the other way. If the man you ask always tells the truth, then the other always lies. The man you ask will tell truthfully that the answer would be the wrong way. If the man you ask always lies, then the other man tells the truth. The man you ask will lie and tell you that the other man would tell you the wrong way.In both cases the answer you would receive would be the wrong way. Go the other way.

Husband Helps Wife To Wake Up From Coma By Biting Her Toes

Currently a Chinese man has successfully broken the 10-year comatose state of wife by biting her toes.

She had suffered a head injury from an industrial accident and had not shown any signs of movement until one day she suddenly squeezed his wrist.

Zhang Kui, of Shenyang, China, claimed that he had tried everything he could think of to wake his wife and nothing seemed to work.

“I played the radio, sang and talked to her and even tickled her, but nothing worked. I then recalled someone saying that the feet are the home for many nerves. I wondered if I could wake her up by biting her feet,” he told the press.

Zhang would not give up and he bit her toes gently and faithfully every day for 10 years until one day, well, one day, it worked!

His wife of 27 years, Lv Fengshuang, is still unable to speak, but she can move her arms and smile.

“I got goose bumps. It was like a dead person suddenly gripping your hand,” Zhang said.

Zhang hopes that some day soon he will once again hear the voice of the woman he has loved so well and so long.

Marriage In Christian Style

The youth in Japan are more and more wanted to choose foreign system such as wedding ceremony of Western style.

The foreign wedding business is booming in Japan. Oddly, even though Christians number only 1% of Japan’s total population, renting a pastor to perform a Christian-style wedding comprises about 60% of all nuptials.

“Christianity is a foreign religion in Japan. It is an image thing, similar to thinking: If you want your pipes fixed, you get a plumber and not a trash collector,” says Todd Thicksten, a 36-year old American missionary who performs ceremonies in Tokyo.

There is something to be said for popularity and trends, and people wanting to do what is the “in thing” to do.

And who’s to say what should or should not take place when people seek ways to honor their very special wedding day?

Weird Quiz

Que : You have two hourglasses--a 4-minute glass and a 7-minute glass.

You want to measure 9 minutes. How do you do it?

Ans : Start both hourglasses. When the 4-minute glass runs out, turn it
over (4 minutes elapsed). When the 7-minute glass runs out, turn
it over (7 minutes elapsed). When the 4-minute glass runs out this
time (8 minutes elapsed), the 7-minute glass has been running for
1 minute. Turn it over once again. When it stops, 9 minutes have
elapsed.

The News We Dont Want To Hear

The Communist Manifesto as read by Ronald Reagan

The Torah as read by Louis Farrakhan

The Koran as read by Salman Rushdie

The Anarchist's Cookbook as read by Theodore Kaczinsky

How To win Friends and Influence People as read by Dennis Rodman

Europe on $10 a Day as read by Steve Forbes

The Godfather as read by John Gotti

Uncle Tom's Cabin as read by George Wallace

I'm Ok You're Ok as read by Rush Limbaugh

Moby Dick as read by Jonah

Crime and Punishment as read by OJ Simpson

A Tale of Two Cities as read by Ed Koch and Rudi Giuliani

The Gulag Archipelago as read by Josef Stalin

Feynman's Lectures On Physics as read by Dan Quayle

The Joy of Cooking as read by Hannibal Lecter

The Wealth of Nations as read by Fidel Castro

Weird Jokes

@ How many publishers does it take to change a light bulb?

Three. One to change it and two to hold down the author.

@ How many editors does it take to change a light bulb?

"Do we have to get author's approval for this?"

Two, one to change the bulb and one to issue a rejection slip to the old bulb.

@ How many proofreaders does it take to change a light bulb?

Proofreaders aren't supposed to change light bulbs. They should just query them.

@ How many mystery writers does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Two. One to screw it in almost all the way in and the other to give it a suprising twist at the end.

@ How many writers does it take to change a light bulb?

Two. One to change the bulb and one to tell a long story about it.

@ How many literary critics does it take to change a light bulb?

Literary critics don't know how, but rest assured they'll find something wrong with the way you do it.

Thoughtful Picture

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Jokes About Taxpayer

"How have you managed to buy such a luxurious villa while your income is so low?" asked the IRS auditor.

"Well," the taxpayer answered, "while fishing last summer I have caught a large golden fish.

When I took it off the hook, the fish opened his mouth and said, 'I am a magical fish.

Throw me back to the sea and I'll give you the most luxurious villa you have ever seen'.

I threw the fish back to the sea, and got the villa."

"How can you prove such an unbelievable story?"

"Well, you can see the villa, can't you?"

A nervous taxpayer was unhappily conversing with the IRS auditor who had come to review his records.

At one point the auditor exclaimed, "We feel it is a great privilege to be allowed to live and work in the USA.

As a citizen you have an obligation to pay taxes, and we expect you to eagerly pay them with a smile."

"Thank God," returned the taxpayer. "I thought you were going to want cash."

Brain Buzz

You want to send a valuable object to a friend.

You have a box which is more than large enough to contain the object.

You have several locks with keys.

The box has a locking ring which is more than large enough to have a lock attached.

But your friend does not have the key to any lock that you have. Note that you cannot send a key in an unlocked box, since it might be copied.

How is this done?

Answer: Attach a lock to the ring.

Send it to her.

She attaches her own lock and sends it back.

You remove your lock and send it back to her.

She removes her lock.

Coca Cola For 40 Years Without Any Other Liquid

A Croatian man drinks Coca-Cola for more than 40 years. He says he is in perfect health. At this time he does not take anything.

His name is Pero Ajtman, 71, of Karanac. He started his Coke only diet in 1968 after promising his mum he wouldn't drink alcohol.

"My mum didn't like me drinking when I was a young man as she was very religious. She made me promise never to drink again and Coca-Coca was the only thing that tasted as good as wine so I started drinking that," Ajtman told daily 24 Sata.

But the pensioner was soon hooked and stopped drinking anything but the fizzy soft drink.

"Now I have a glass in the morning, before and after lunch, with my dinner and then before I go to bed. I never drink anything else," he said.

"My mother isn't here to tell me not to drink anymore but I'm not even tempted to quit coke for alcohol. Coke is my drug now, and I'll drink it till I die."

New Toy Mini-Mes

Currently a Japanese Toy Company is offering to make tailor-made robot Mini-Mes for its customers.

Robotics firm Little Island claim they can create a tiny likeness of anyone - even replicating the sound of their voice.

Customers place their £1,500 order and simply submit a photo of the person they'd like their new toy to resemble.

Six months later, and their very own Mini-Me will turn up on their doorstep.

The dolls can be taught to sound like the customer via an in-built microphone, a computer and voice recognition software.

The robots, which are created in a technology centre just north of Tokyo, are equipped with 80 gigabytes of storage and a webcam.

The advanced version can even download the latest news and weather and then read back the reports - in your voice

Weird Jokes

An Spanish bandit made a specialty of crossing the Rio Grande from time to time and robbing banks in Texas. Finally, a reward was offered for his capture, and an enterprising Texas ranger decided to track him down.

After a lengthy search, he traced the bandit to his favorite cantina, snuck up behind him, put his trusty six-shooter to the bandit's head, and said, "You're under arrest. Tell me where you hid the loot or I'll blow your brains out."

But the bandit didn't speak English, and the Ranger didn't speak Spanish. Fortunately, a bilingual lawyer was in the saloon and translated the Ranger's message. The terrified bandit blurted out, in Spanish, that the loot was buried under the oak tree in back of the cantina.

"What did he say?" asked the Ranger.

The lawyer answered, "He said 'Get lost, you turkey. You wouldn't dare shoot me.'"

Quiz

A boy leaves his house one summer day,

and began to run into the woods to his grandmother's house which is on the other
side of the woods.

It should also be known that the boy reached his grandmother's house.

How far did the boy run into the woods?

Answer: Halfway. The reason is that once you reach the middle, you are then
running out of the woods.

Kissing Band In The Railway Station

Recently Cheshire Railway Station authority banned kissing. Couples have been banned from kissing at a railway station in Cheshire because it holds up other passengers.

No-kissing signs have appeared in the taxi rank at Warrington Bank Quay Station forcing lovers to use designated areas only.

The signs were erected after concerns that passionate embraces were causing delays for commuters at the station which is believed to be the first in the country to put up such signs.

Ruth Sargeant, 38, who uses the station to travel to Manchester, said: "It's ridiculous. I don't see the point of having a no-kissing area, surely people are entitled to say their goodbyes."

The no kissing signs are part of the £650,000 station refurbishment funded by Virgin Trains, Network Rail, the Northwest Regional Development Agency and the Department for Transport.

Colin Daniels, chief executive of the Warrington Chamber of Commerce who came up with the idea, said: "They may seem frivolous but there is a serious message underneath."

A Virgin spokesman said: "We are trying to tell people not to wait too long in the drop-off, but we don't mind people waiting there for a short time."

Asked how the no-kissing rule would be enforced, he added: "We will apply this sensibly."

Snake Charmers Profession illegal

In 1991 an international law banned the activity of Snake Charmer. But in India still lots of people are engaged in this job. Recently 1,000 Indian snake charmers staged a rally in protest against a law that made their profession illegal.

Playing their distinctive flutes, they marched in Calcutta, demanding the right to perform with live snakes.

Snake charmers say the ban threatens the survival of their way of life. Animal rights groups say it should be kept to curb the abuse of snakes.

Raktim Das, the head of India's snake charmers federation, said the government should make the traditional performance legal again.

He also said serum farms should be set up across India where snake charmers could sell venom for medical use.

"We are being consistently harassed by the police for keeping snakes, which are snatched away without paying us compensation," Mr Das said.

Fall In A Deep Love

EÁMANË was, as all lovers are, full of doubts and questions. She needed assurances from Fingolfin, who was more than obliging at professing his love.

“How deep is your love?”

“It is deeper than the ocean, and deeper still, than your wishes,” replied Fingolfin.

“How tall is your love?”

“It is taller than the sky, and taller still, than your dreams.”

“Do you love me?”

“Yes I do, why would you need to ask?”

Eámanë looked Fingolfin in the eye long and hard, and told him“Everything I ask about, you manage to answer in rhetoric and metaphor. Everything surpasses me- the depth and height of your love surpasses all that matters to me.” Fingolfin stared back at Eámanë's face and replied “You surpass me”, with a blush he could have assured her was redder than the sun, and redder still than her lips, or her love. Eámanë left Fingolfin's arms, pacing under the tree's shade where they rested, irked and looking disgustedly at her lover.

“You cannot compare yourself to what is divine,” replied Fingolfin. “You are a mortal, and will never surpass these things, as I won't either. That is the way of the world.”

“If I cannot surpass it, then what can I surpass? My friends are all naïve and simpleminded. But I feel the shimmering stars lure me, calling me to join their fold. I feel the fragrant flowers pull me, calling me to join their patch. Why am I myself, that cannot surpass anything?”

Fingolfin, who wasn't as wise as he would have wanted to be, cleared his throat, and replied while getting up as well, “That is a question many might ask, and never find the answer to.”

Eámanë bit her lip, and frowned at Fingolfin.

“I wish I could fly. I wish I could live forever. I wish I could be somebody else.”

“But none of that is possible,” laughed out Fingolfin, without meaning to.
“No!” Eámanë was greatly angered. “There has to be ways. There must have been others before me, in my position. Existence would be meaningless without surpassing anything.”

“I'm sure there have been plenty before you, or before me; in the end of the day it's not so terrible, this existence. But it's all a matter of what you will settle for.”

“That is terrible! I wish to learn the meaning of life, I wish to learn everything and surpass whatever comes my way.”

“This world is a dangerous place, but it is beautiful too. We feel like we must know our place in the Big Plan. But maybe there is none. We are cursed, yes. We are cursed in our desire to know. Maybe we are simply meant to exist. To surpass love, we would have to be born as different things entirely.”

“Then there is nothing for me!” exclaimed Eámanë.

“That is not true,” Fingolfin dejectedly replied, “You have yourself, and you have my love in its entirety.”

“And nothing else? How does it amount to anything if I'm unhappy with it? My peers are foolish and I'm not them. I'm myself but I want to be more.”

“It's not a matter of happiness, when all is said and done. Love is vital and the only thing that, for us, will have any meaning- good or bad. You should embrace its splendor, the grand heights and depths we mortals cannot reach. It's the only peace we will ever find. It will give us strength when we need it, and the will to do extremely difficult things for it.”

And so Fingolfin and Eámanë returned to their place under the tree, in each other's embrace, and Eámanë no longer felt inferior- she only felt separate, from her friends, because she began to understand the magnificence of love.

“Fingolfin, how much do you love me?”

“If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky- that would be the splendor of love that we mortals cannot see or surpass. That is how much you have taught me to love you.”

Quiz Of The Day

Four men and four women are shipwrecked on a desert island.

Eventually each one falls in love with one another, and is himself
loved by one person.

John falls in love with a girl who is in love with Jim.

Arthur loves a girl who loves the man who loves Ellen.

Mary is loved by the man who is loved by the girl who is loved by Bruce.

Gloria hates Bruce and is hated by the man whom Hazel
loves.

Enigma: Who loves Arthur?

Answer: Gloria Loves Arthur

Next Mozart - 5 Year Old Pianist

Yoo Ye-eun, a 5 year-old South Korean girl is being talked about as though she might be the next Mozart.

Ye-eun was born without eyes and was adopted in 2002.She has never received formal piano lessons, yet even at the age of 3, she could play any song she heard after listening to it a single time.

The blind pianist received a large amount of recognition after a video of her performance received more than 27 million views on a popular Korean website called Pandora TV.

And now her remarkable talent is set to propel her to stardom as clips of her amazing performance have attracted millions of viewers to Korean website Pandora TV. A similar clip on YouTube has so far received two million hits.

Her display on 'Star King', a Korean talent show, earned the youngster £500 in prize money and moved the studio audience to tears.

‘She has perfect pitch even though she has never learnt to play. We never taught her,’ said Ye-eun’s adoptive mother, Park Jung Soon.

In May she performed a duet of ‘You Raise me Up’ with 7 year-old British singer Connie Talbot, who last year starred in reality show Britain’s Got Talent.

Ugliest Building On Earth - Ryugyong Hotel,North Korea

Recently the 105-story Ryugyong Hotel,Pyongyang of North Korea appears to be the winner of the ugly building contest.

The one-hundred-and-five-story Ryugyong Hotel is hideous, dominating the Pyongyang skyline like some twisted North Korean version of Cinderella's castle.Even by Communist standards, the 3,000-room hotel is hideously ugly, a series of three gray 328-foot long concrete wings shaped into a steep pyramid. With 75 degree sides that rise to an apex of 1,083 feet, the Hotel of Doom isn't the just the worst designed building in the world -- it's the worst-built building, too.

Construction began in 1987 (although no one knows why) but stopped in 1992. It is unlikely that it will ever be finished due to the fact that North Korea ran out of money and there is no tourist industry in the region.

Ryugyong Hotel remains an eyesore that should not to be viewed after eating. There it stands and will for many years to come, unfinished, unwanted, and very, very… ugly!

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Historical Day

1600 - Giordano Bruno burned in Rome as a heretic

1854 - British recognize independence of Orange Free State (South Africa)

1870 - Mississippi readmitted to U.S. after Civil War

1876 - Sardines were 1st canned - in Eastport - Maine

1878 - 1st telephone exchange in SF opens with 18 phones

1908 - Geronimo - Apache hero - dies (birth date unknown)

Famous Birthday

1723 - Tobias Mayer, "method of lunars" for longitude determination

1774 - Raphael Peale, American painter

1781 - Ren‚-Th‚ophile-Hyacinthe Laennec, invented stethoscope

1844 - A Montgomery Ward, found mail-order a nice business

1857 - Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor & publisher

1874 - Thomas J. Watson Sr., founder of IBM

1888 - Otto Stern, physicist (Nobel 1943)

1902 - Marian Anderson, operatic contralto

1908 - Red (Walter L) Barber, sports announcer

1924 - Margaret Truman, daughter of Harry S

1925 - Hal Holbrook, actor

1929 - Chaim Potok, novelist

1934 - Alan Bates, actor (Zorba the Greek)

1936 - Jim Brown, NFL fullback (Cleveland Browns)

1942 - Huey Newton, Black Panther leader

1945 - Pat Morrow, in Los Angeles - Peyton Place

1947 - Dodie Stevens,

Jokes Of The Day

After a Beer Festival in London, all the brewery presidents decided to go out for a beer.

Corona's president sits down and says, "Señor, I would like the world's best beer, a Corona." The bartender takes a bottle from the shelf and gives it to him.

Then Budweiser's president says, "I'd like the best beer in the world, give me 'The King Of Beers', a Budweiser." The bartender gives him one.

Coors' president says, "I'd like the best beer in the world, the only one made with Rocky Mountain spring water, give me a Coors." He gets it.

The guy from Guinness sits down and says, "Give me a Coke." The other brewery presidents look over at him and ask, "Why aren't you drinking a Guinness?" and the Guinness president replies, "Well, if you guys aren't drinking beer, neither will I."

Avoid Red Carpet - Oscar Comittee

All the Hollywood Stars are being advised to avoid the red carpet this year. The Oscar committee wants to surprise everyone in the upcoming Oscars ceremony.

Last year Oscar Ceremony viewed only 32 million people. It the least-watched Oscars ever.

The organisers have devised a new strategy to entice viewers: publicists anonymously told the paper that they have been asked if their clients could use an off-camera entrance.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences itself denies contacting the presenters of the awards across the board but has said it hopes there will be a few surprise faces this year.

The dilemma is that while superstars like Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts have the power to boost audience figures. They are soul property for Oscar Ceremony. They're also hot property for the red carpet economy. And one question that isn't asked when stars are on the Oscar stage is "who are you wearing?"

Each year, designers make a Herculean effort to secure stars like Beyonce and Natalie Portman to adorn their wares.

But Heat magazine style editor Ellie Crompton says: "I can't see it making a huge difference. There'll still be plenty of eye candy on the red carpet. It's more about the winners... and people will always want to watch the actual show for the emotion and the excitement."

This year is about a drive for ratings. Broadcaster ABC pays $50m (£35m) in licence fees annually for the event, so poor ratings simply won't do.

Instead of the traditional comedian, Aussie actor Hugh Jackman will host the event. In itself, this is a sign that something different is being planned.

Rumours are rife: Jackman's participation in musical numbers, a new seating arrangement and even a new way for the awards to be presented.

A big concern is that the mass market won't be tuning in because there's no popular big picture nominee, like the Dark Knight, to cheer for.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is the highest grosser at $117m (£82m). The other nominees for Best Picture have grossed the same amount collectively.

Domino Pizza's New Kind Of Profit

In UK and Ireland, consumers wants to take dinner in home rather than eating-outside. It boosts pizza's chain's profits.

Domino's Pizza said full-year profits were up by almost a quarter after the fast food chain grew at a rate of a store a week in 2008.

The firm said it planned to open a further 50 stores this year, creating at least another 1,500 new jobs in the UK and Ireland.

Domino's said profits rose to £23.4 million in the 52 weeks to December 28, as consumers abandoned the restaurant sector in the economic downturn and chose to dine at home.

The chain said working people were increasingly reliant on prepared food. It added Domino's has a broadening customer base as the young adults originally attracted to take-away pizza had grown into their 30s, "taking their eating habits with them".

Domino's posted an 18.4% rise in sales in the year and said it had opened a record 52 new stores.

The Domino's announcement comes after fried chicken chain KFC said it planned an expansion which would create up to 9,000 jobs over the next five years as consumers turn to cheaper dining.

And fast food giant McDonald's recently said last year was its "strongest ever" in the UK despite the economic downturn.

Domino's, which has 553 stores in the UK and Ireland run on a franchise basis, said people wanted to "trade down" from going out for a meal but were unwilling to give up entirely on luxuries.

The pizza delivery firm said it had an "exceptional" start to 2009, with like-for-like sales for the first six weeks up 15%. It said a third of the 2.7 million people it delivered to last year were new customers.

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David Beckham Wants To Stay In AC Milan

In the last match of Beckham, Milan Derby won against AC Milan. But Beckham thinks that it will not hurt him to retain in AC Milan. Beckham also dissapointed for this current defeat.

The England midfielder is on a short-term loan from the Los Angeles Galaxy until March 9, and Milan have been looking to keep the 33-year-old to help their title chances in Italy.

"I am disappointed because our hopes of winning the Scudetto are truly minimal," said Beckham. "But this doesn't alter our plans. I know that Milan want me until the end of the season."

Prising Beckham loose from the Galaxy will not be easy with the Major League Soccer franchise seeking a huge transfer fee.

Los Angeles turned down a bid made by the Italians last month but Milan club administrator Adriano Galliani has not given up hope of keeping Beckham at the San Siro.

"We are negotiating and trying to resolve the problem," said Galliani.

"Friday could be the crucial day. Between our offer and their (the Galaxy's) request there is still a margin but the will of the player is to remain.

"We will have to wait and see how this situation develops - there is still time."

Beckham, who has recovered from a minor hamstring injury, is set to travel with AC Milan to Bremen for Wednesday's UEFA Cup tie at Werder.

Brain Buzz

A snail is at the bottom of a well 30 feet deep.

It crawls up 3 feet each day, but at night, it slips down 2 feet.

How long does it take for the snail to crawl out the well?

Answer: 28 days. Once it reaches the top, it does not slip down 2 feet.

Movie For Valentine Week

Love Actually

Writer-director Richard Curtis counts down the five weeks before Christmas, in this delightful romantic comedy. Among a wide array of meet-cute couples, the movie intertwines so many characters that their flirtations last the entire feature. Whenever it gets to be too much he cuts to Bill Nighy, a washed-up 70s rock star who is cynically pushing his Christmas record to the top of the charts.

Roman Holiday

This classic romantic comedy introduced Audrey Hepburn to audiences as a modern-day princess. Stifled by her royal entourage on a trip to Rome, Hepburn's Princess Ann escapes to explore the Italian city on her own. While incognito, she falls in love with an American newspaperman, Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck). When Bradley learns of Ann's true identity, he finds himself torn between following his nose for news--and turning her into a big story--or the growing affections of his heart.

My Best Friends Wedding

When Julianne made a deal with her best friend Michael to marry each other if, by the ripe old age of 28, they had not yet found their true love, she never really doubted it would come to pass. But jealousy rears its ugly head when she discovers he is engaged to another woman, and, what's more, that she is perfect for him.

There is something about Mary

There's Something About Mary is a no-holds-barred comedy in which 30-something Ben Stiller locates and courts his high school dream girl (Cameron Diaz), unwittingly enlisting the help of some of her more hilariously psychotic suitors. The movie is riddled with in-your-face gags and unapologetic raunchiness disguised as a riotously funny love story that is actually very sweet. Be amazed at the impeccable casting and stellar performances of the supporting players.

A Walk to Remember

Landon Carter (Shane West) and his friends are the coolest kids in Beaufort, North Carolina. Jamie Sullivan (Mandy Moore) is the opposite--there does not seem to be anything cool about her. When a prank planned by Landon and his friend goes terribly wrong, the principal sentences him to tutoring on the weekends and working on the school play, activities in which Jamie is involved. As the two begin spending time together, Landon finds himself intrigued by this guileless girl who sees beauty in everything and exhibits unwavering faith in people and in the world.

University Profile - University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, United States. It was founded in 1919, making it the second-oldest general-purpose campus in the University of California system.

UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college) as well as undergraduate colleges Arts and Architecture, Herb Alpert School of Music, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Scienceý, Nursing, and Theater, Film, and Television, seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students annually, and that number is steadily rising.

UCLA's undergraduate program is ranked 25th among "America's Best Colleges 2009: National Universities" by U.S. News & World Report, third among public universities in the United States. The Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked UCLA 13th internationally.UCLA also ranks among the top 10 schools in USA with the most faculty awards.

UCLA has more applicants than any other university in the United States. Out of 55,401 undergraduate applicants for Fall 2008, only 12,755 (22.7%) were admitted. Students come to UCLA from all 50 states of USA and more than 100 countries.

When UCLA opened its new campus in 1929, it had four buildings. Today, the campus includes 163 buildings across 419 acres (1.7 km²) in the western part of Los Angeles. The Romanesque Revival style of these first four structures remained the predominant building style on campus until the 1950s, when architect Welton Becket was hired to supervise the expansion of the campus over the next two decades. In order to accommodate UCLA's rapidly growing student population, multiple construction and renovation projects are in progress, including expansions of the life sciences and engineering research complexes. This continuous construction gives UCLA the interesting on-campus nickname of Under Construction Like Always.

The campus includes sculpture gardens, fountains, museums, and a mix of architectural styles. The campus is informally divided into North Campus and South Campus, which are both on the eastern half of the university's land. North Campus is the original campus core; its buildings are more old-fashioned in appearance and clad in imported Italian brick. North Campus is home to the arts, humanities, social sciences, law, and business programs and is centered around oak tree-lined Dickson Court. South Campus is home to the physical sciences, life sciences, engineering, psychology, mathematical sciences, all health-related fields, and the UCLA Medical Center.

The tallest building on campus is named after Ralph Bunche, an African-American alumnus, who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating an armistice agreement between the Jews and Arabs in Palestine. A bust of him, on the entrance to Bunche Hall, overlooks the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden. He was the first individual of non-European background and the first UCLA alumnus to be honoured with the Prize.

With a location near Hollywood and a world-famous film and television school, the UCLA campus has attracted filming for decades. Much of the 1985 film Gotcha! was shot at UCLA, as well as John Singleton's Higher Learning (1995). Legally Blonde, "Old School", "The Nutty Professor", Erin Brockovich, and American Pie 2 all were mainly shot at the university campus or locale. In January 2009, the Bollywood movie My Name is Khan was shot at UCLA.

UCLA was ranked 12th in Newsweek's annual ranking of the Top 100 Global universities. In 2007, UCLA was ranked 13th in the world (11th in North America) by Top 500 World Universities, an annual list published by the Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. UCLA was ranked 18th in the country and 41st in the world by The Times Higher Education Supplement's list of the top 200 universities in the world.

UCLA is ranked 25th among "America's Best Colleges 2009: National Universities" by U.S. News and World Report, third best public university in the United States. In the August 2128, 2006 issue of Newsweek (also released as the 2007 issue of the Kaplan Guide to Colleges), UCLA was listed as one of "25 New Ivies". The Washington Monthly ranks UCLA 2nd nationally with criteria based on research, community service, and social mobility. UCLA's School of Law, Anderson School of Management, School of Public Affairs, and School of Medicine consistently rank among the top ten to twenty in the United States.

UCLA's library system has over eight million books and 70,000 serials spread over twelve libraries and eleven other archives, reading rooms, and research centers.

Six professors (two of whom are current faculty) and four alumni have been awarded the Nobel Prize for achievements in science and peace. 90 professors are members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 52 have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships, and nine are MacArthur Foundation Fellows. In 2006,54 faculty members were listed as "Highly Cited" by the Institute for Scientific Information.

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