Time to revamp marriage

“An unhappy marriage means problems for a family,” Hsu Chang-te, a Taiwanese love lyrist, said last Sunday at Hanfenlou Bookstore while meeting with his Beijing readers.

Hsu has written the lyrics to 1,300 love songs and has been married over 20 years, but he urges readers not to follow in his mistake in 100 Reminds for Love.

CNPIEC Bookstore book listing

The China National Publication Import and Export Corporation’s (CNPIEC) bookstore recommends these new arrivals to Beijing Today readers.

Jul 31,2009

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Summertime for kidney stones

Many people drink soft drinks or beers to beat the heat instead of water in summer, but doctors say drinking too little water carries a big risk for urinary stones.

Beekeeping diary: goodbye, colony A

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/beekeeping/5930458/Beekeeping-diary-goodbye-colony-A.html
Ian Douglas loses some of his bee friends
 
By Ian Douglas
The frames of my hive are all but empty, there are just a hundred or so aimless bees forlornly crawling around. They still go out and dutifully forage, but they bring their booty back to no one, filling up stores that will never be used.
The queens [...]

Phil Spencer: from boom to bust

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/propertymarket/5933320/Phil-Spencer-from-boom-to-bust.html
It’s been a tough year, but Phil Spencer has no intention of getting out of the property business, writes Anna Tyzack
For the past 18 months, Phil Spencer’s life has had all the drama, jeopardy and upset of an episode of Location, Location, Location – without the happy ending. The television presenter’s home finding business, Garrington, [...]

Managing fevers in children

By Melissa Varma
At some point, all parents will have to deal with a child’s fever. For all of us, this can be a distressing moment.
When my eldest daughter developed her first fever, I rushed her to the clinic and demanded her blood and urine be checked for bacterial infection. As my pediatrician examined my smiling, [...]

Barack Obama’s jeans VS Gordon Brown’s chinos – which is the winner?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/5926239/Barack-Obamas-jeans-VS-Gordon-Browns-chinos—which-is-the-winner.html
Obama socks it to us in blue jeans, but Brown fails to work the classic chino look.
 
By Charlie Porter
There seems to be a pattern developing in the Obama marriage. Michelle has been widely lauded once again — this time for her new haircut. Meanwhile, her husband, the 44th President of the United States, was pilloried [...]

Why I love my Chanel

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/5925607/Why-I-love-my-Chanel.html
Four fashionistas reveal the moment they fell in love with Chanel.
 
By Celia Walden
‘Fashion,” said Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel, “is about moving forward, not looking back.” Forward, diagonally, sideways and in witty, whimsical circles, Chanel (1883-1971) did it all. Finding the women of her time “too dressed up and not nearly elegant enough”, she stole the masculine [...]

U2 concerts in doubt after residents’ protest

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/5924546/U2-concerts-in-doubt-after-residents-protest.html
The next date of U2’s worldwide tour are in doubt after protesters held up the removal of the band’s custom-built stage from Ireland.
Scores of residents mounted a picket outside Dublin’s Croke Park stadium, where the rock band finished the last of their three homecoming gigs in front of 240,000 fans on Monday night.
Dozens of trucks [...]