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2005-6-3 13:39 xinweng

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图瓦卢人的担忧
A coconut palm succumbs to sand erosion on the shore of Tepuka Islet on Funafuti Atoll as rising sea levels inundate many of Tuvalu's low islands. Tuvaluans fear that global warming induced changes in sea level coupled with king tides and cyclones will soon render their Polynesian archipelago uninhabitable.

2005-6-3 13:40 xinweng

“财富”聚焦中国A Chinese opera actress performs during the 'Beijing's Night' ceremony for the Fortune Global Forum in Beijing May 17, 2005. The forum has attracted more than 800 participants, including CEOs, chairpersons and presidents of Global 500 firms and domestic enterprises, top government officials and renowned scholars to brainstorm in the Chinese capital.

2005-6-3 13:41 xinweng

Xbox 360亮相E3年会Microsoft Co Ltd's new game console 'Xbox 360' is displayed in Tokyo May 13, 2005. When the video game industry gathers in Los Angeles this week for its annual trade show, everyone from the most important game developers to technophiles will have just one thing on their minds: new toys. Sony Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Nintendo Co. Ltd. are expected to show off their next-generation gaming consoles to developers at the annual Electronics Entertainment Expo, or E3, as all three companies seek to entrench themselves deeper into living rooms with advanced computing, graphics and multimedia features.

2005-6-3 13:42 xinweng

威风凛凛的美洲虎Maya, right, a young dotted jaguar, walks by the side of her mother in the Nyiregyhaza Animal Park in Nyiregyhaza, 245 kms east of Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, April 28, 2005. It is the first jaguar to be born in a Hungarian zoo for twenty years. Maya's parents have black fur, but her fur will remain dotted according to experts of the zoo. The cub is raised by her mother only, the father is kept separated.

2005-6-3 13:43 xinweng

令人称奇的鲸豚Kekaimalu (L), the only known living hybrid of a false killer whale, shows off her baby, a female wholphin, at Sealife Park in Honolulu, Hawaii, April 21, 2005. The baby is one-fourth false killer whale and three-forths Atlantic bottlenose dolphin. It was previously thought that a hybrid animal such as Kekaimalu would have difficulty conceiving and birthing but after the first 100 days of life, the baby wholphin and mother seem healthy and happy.

2005-6-3 13:44 xinweng

迷你小猪运动会Pigs compete swimming race at Pig Olympics Thursday April 14, 2005 in Shanghai, China. The pigs, a midget species from Thailand, begin training soon after birth and can begin performing professionally from about one year of age according to local media.

2005-6-3 13:45 xinweng

樱桃树盛开时With the Jefferson monument in the distance, the early morning sun highlights the cherry blossoms at the tidal basin in Washington, Sunday, April 10, 2005. With nice weather over the weekend, thousands of tourists and local residents are flocking to see the cherry blossoms in peak bloom.

2005-6-3 13:46 xinweng

革命性的小闹钟A 25-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology student has invented a revolutionary alarm clock 'clocky,' in this undated photo, that falls to the floor and rolls away on the first push of the snooze button. To turn it off, a person must get out of bed and find it. The clock features two rubber wheels and is covered in thick, 1970s-style shag carpet and other material to cushion it when it tumbles to the floor.

2005-6-3 13:47 xinweng

金饰头盔Model Anissa Von Busse wears an 18-carat gold headpiece during a promotion for an exhibition by the Australian Gold Council for Gold Week in Sydney April 7, 2005. With Australia being the world's third largest producer of the precious metal behind South Africa and the United States, producers hope to encourage more people to wear gold in the face of stiff competition from diamonds, opals and other 'objects of desire'.

2005-6-3 13:48 xinweng

北大学生毕业时装展A Chinese model on the runway during the Beijing University of Clothing and Technology graduation show held in Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 29, 2005. Graduate students showed off their works at a show that's part of China Fashion week, which started last Friday.

2005-6-3 13:49 xinweng

教皇保罗这把大扇还能撑多久？Faithful shelter from the sun under a colorful umbrella during Easter Sunday Mass in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican (news - web sites), March 27, 2005. An ailing Pope John Paul (news - web sites) appeared at his window to bless the faithful on Easter Sunday but in a dramatic episode that brought tears to the eyes of many people, he failed in his attempt to speak.

2005-6-3 13:50 xinweng

乌拉圭牛仔节An Uruguayan 'gaucho' or cowboy rides a wild horse during the annual celebration of the Prado criollo week, in Montevideo, March 21, 2005. Gauchos from Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil have come to the Uruguayan capital during the Easter week to compete for the award of best rider, the main event during which gauchos from the southern cone nations celebrate traditional cowboy folklore.

2005-6-3 13:51 xinweng

垄断巨头受罚在即Microsoft's Windows XP (news - web sites) Pro operating system rolls off the assembly line. The Wall Street Journal said EU authorities could fine US software giant Microsoft 5 million dollars (3.8 million euros) per day if the company is unduly slow to apply measures imposed on it a year ago. The European Commission (news - web sites), which took action against Microsoft for abusing a dominant market position, would decide in two weeks' time on what to do, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

2005-6-3 13:52 xinweng

农产品展览会丰富多彩Four piglets jump over a low wall on a dirt track during a pig race at Sydney's Royal Easter Show March 18, 2005. The annual show features agricultural exhibitions, competitions and a range of entertainment and food.

2005-6-3 13:53 xinweng

印尼男童抗议采矿污染Two boys hold posters as they take part of protest against pollution from US-operated gold mine in Indonesia. A police probe into the alleged dumping of deadly toxins by US mining giant Newmont was given the go-ahead by Indonesia's Supreme Court.

2005-6-3 13:54 xinweng

紫禁城大修A visitor walks past the square in front of the Beijing's Forbidden City, which is under renovation March 16, 2005. Beijing's 600-year-old Forbidden City is undergoing a massive renovation project that is keeping 1,400 workers and engineers busy repainting, retiling, and rebuilding most of the crumbling imperial relics. Costing more than 100 million yuan per year ($12 million), the project began in 2001 with help from the World Cultural Heritage Foundation.

2005-6-3 13:55 xinweng

新品牌有氧手机A woman walks past an O2 advertisement in Hanover. Mobile phone operator mmO2 announced that it was changing its name to O2, the brand name under which it markets mobile phone services. Under the restructuring, shareholders were given the option of receiving new O2 shares in exchange for existing mmO2 holdings, or a cash alternative, the group said in an official statement to the London Stock Exchange.

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