100 Places To See In Your Lifetime-Heaven On Earth-#62-Guilin, China-"In the southern Chinese city of Guilin, there are more than 100,000 osmathus trees, splendid with their fragrant white flowers. Below ground, there is also a marvelous system of large caves. However, what keeps the visitors coming in droves is the steep conical limestone hills, bearing names such as Lonely Eminence and Piled Festoon, that rise up from the Li River in a masterpiece of nature. Just waiting for the month to get over with....still nothing is happening here, no answers, no where to go but same places again and again...I hope the typhoons are over with so I don't get knocked out of my trip again....I don't know why these last 2 months just have to drag on forever....I love these songs I can't wait to get back to my radio station back home, so I can hear regular music again....Happy Rosh Hashanah everyone who celebrates it....=) xoxoxo" 
20 Worst Drinks in America 2010 Over the past 50 years or so, we Americans have developed a severe drinking problem. "We stopped making our own iced teas and lemonades (recipe: water, lemon, sugar) and started buying them in bottles or mixes, with ingredients like "high-fructose corn syrup" and "ascorbic acid" on the labels. We stopped thinking of a soda as a treat - akin to an ice cream or a candy bar - and started seeing it as the equivalent of a glass of water, drinking two, three, four, or more a day. Then we stopped drinking water out of the tap and started demanding that it be artificially flavored and put into bottled with the words "vitamin" or "energy" stamped on their labels. And, in just the last decade or so, many of us stopped brewing our own coffee and started buying things with vaguely European names, like "mocha latte." And the result of all this beverage evolution is that, today, walking into a convenience store or a beverage distributorship has become dangerous to our health. America’s supermarket aisles and drive-thru menus are awash in empty liquid calories. We've updated our list of worst offenders. Survive the rising tide by eliminating these, the country’s most damaging drinkables, from your beverage regiment. And for more information about diet-destroying drinks, get the latest book in the series: Drink This, Not That!" 
Japanese Favourite Stories-"In a village in Japan there once lived a hard-working old man. On his right cheek he had a big lump called a wen. One day he went to the mountain to cut wood. Suddenly it bagan to rain. "Good gracious! What shall I do?" he said to himself. The he was lucky to find a big hollow tree where he could wait till the rain stopped. While he was waiting, his head begain to nod and he fell asleep. When he woke up, he was very surprised to find it was night already. In front of his tree a whole party of red and green elves were dancing. "Aha! cried one elf, "there's an old man in the tree." And they dragged him out of his hiding place. "Now, old man, you must dance for us." So the old man danced his very best jig for the elves. "Very good, very good!" That was a lot of fun," said the elves, and they clapped their hands with glee. "You must come again tomorrow night to show us your dance. Until then, we will keep your wen. Just to make sure that you do, we're going to take your wen and not give it back to you until you come and dance again." And they took the big lump right off the old man's face, thinking it must be something very precious. The old man, of course, was overjoyed to lose his wen and left the forest singing. When he got home, he told the story to his wife, who was both surprised and happy. Her old husband looked so handsome without his wen. His neighbour next door also had an ugly wen and when he heard the story, he became very excited. "I could lose my wen in the very same way!" he said, and he went to the same mountain and hid in the same tree. At last, the same elves came for their party. "Now is the time!" said the second old man, and he jumped out of the tree and began to dance. But he could not jig as well as the first old man. The elves were not pleased and shouted:"This dance is not as good as the one we saw last night!" Finally one of them said: "Well, we don't ever want to see him dance again. Let's give him back his wen so he won't come again." With that, the elves took out the wen they had taken from the first old man, put it on his neighbour and chased him out of the forest. So the second old man went sadly home with two wens on his face instead of none." Where Egypt's elite now play, an ancient Roman port on Mediterranean once thrived MARINA, Egypt - Today, it's a sprawl of luxury vacation homes where Egypt's wealthy play on the white beaches of the Mediterranean coast. But 2,000 years ago, this was a thriving Greco-Roman port city, boasting villas of merchants grown rich on the wheat and olive trade. The ancient city, known as Leukaspis or Antiphrae, was hidden for centuries after it was nearly wiped out by a fourth century tsunami that devastated the region. More recently, it was nearly buried under the modern resort of Marina in a development craze that turned this coast into the summer playground for Egypt's elite. Nearly 25 years after its discovery, Egyptian authorities are preparing to open ancient Leukaspis' tombs, villas and city streets to visitors — a rare example of a Classical era city in a country better known for its pyramids and Pharaonic temples. "Visitors can go to understand how people lived back then, how they built their graves, lived in villas or traded in the main agora (square)," said Ahmed Amin, the local inspector for the antiquities department. "Everyone's heard of the resort Marina, now they will know the historic Marina." The history of the two Marinas is inextricably linked. When Chinese engineers began cutting into the sandy coast to build the roads for the new resort in 1986, they struck the ancient tombs and houses of a town founded in the second century B.C. About 200 acres were set aside for archaeology, while everywhere else along the coast up sprouted holiday villages for Egyptians escaping the stifling summer heat of the interior for the Mediterranean's cool breezes. The ancient city yielded up its secrets in a much more gradual fashion to a team of Polish archaeologists excavating the site through the 1990s. A portrait emerged of a prosperous port town, with up to 15,000 residents at its height, exporting grains, livestock, wine and olives to the rest of the Mediterranean.
9 Of The Most Polluted Cities In the World-#1-Lake Karachay, Russia-"Russia's Lake Karachay region is considered to be the most polluted location on Planet Earth. This Russian nuclear weapon production site turned Soviet Union nuclear dumping location has 120 million curies of radioactivity. This radiation level is equivalent to a lethal dose after merely an hour of exposure. According to the NRDC, it is also equal to dumping all of the waste tanks at Washington's Hanford Reservation into a 30-acre lake. In true environmental crime fashion, the radiation has infiltrated the region's groundwater supply."
100 Places To See In Your Lifetime-Heaven On Earth-#62-Guilin, China-"In the southern Chinese city of Guilin, there are more than 100,000 osmathus trees, splendid with their fragrant white flowers. Below ground, there is also a marvelous system of large caves. However, what keeps the visitors coming in droves is the steep conical limestone hills, bearing names such as Lonely Eminence and Piled Festoon, that rise up from the Li River in a masterpiece of nature. Just waiting for the month to get over with....still nothing is happening here, no answers, no where to go but same places again and again...I hope the typhoons are over with so I don't get knocked out of my trip again....I don't know why these last 2 months just have to drag on forever....I love these songs I can't wait to get back to my radio station back home, so I can hear regular music again....Happy Rosh Hashanah everyone who celebrates it....=) xoxoxo" 
20 Worst Drinks in America 2010 Over the past 50 years or so, we Americans have developed a severe drinking problem. "We stopped making our own iced teas and lemonades (recipe: water, lemon, sugar) and started buying them in bottles or mixes, with ingredients like "high-fructose corn syrup" and "ascorbic acid" on the labels. We stopped thinking of a soda as a treat - akin to an ice cream or a candy bar - and started seeing it as the equivalent of a glass of water, drinking two, three, four, or more a day. Then we stopped drinking water out of the tap and started demanding that it be artificially flavored and put into bottled with the words "vitamin" or "energy" stamped on their labels. And, in just the last decade or so, many of us stopped brewing our own coffee and started buying things with vaguely European names, like "mocha latte." And the result of all this beverage evolution is that, today, walking into a convenience store or a beverage distributorship has become dangerous to our health. America’s supermarket aisles and drive-thru menus are awash in empty liquid calories. We've updated our list of worst offenders. Survive the rising tide by eliminating these, the country’s most damaging drinkables, from your beverage regiment. And for more information about diet-destroying drinks, get the latest book in the series: Drink This, Not That!" 
Japanese Favourite Stories-"In a village in Japan there once lived a hard-working old man. On his right cheek he had a big lump called a wen. One day he went to the mountain to cut wood. Suddenly it bagan to rain. "Good gracious! What shall I do?" he said to himself. The he was lucky to find a big hollow tree where he could wait till the rain stopped. While he was waiting, his head begain to nod and he fell asleep. When he woke up, he was very surprised to find it was night already. In front of his tree a whole party of red and green elves were dancing. "Aha! cried one elf, "there's an old man in the tree." And they dragged him out of his hiding place. "Now, old man, you must dance for us." So the old man danced his very best jig for the elves. "Very good, very good!" That was a lot of fun," said the elves, and they clapped their hands with glee. "You must come again tomorrow night to show us your dance. Until then, we will keep your wen. Just to make sure that you do, we're going to take your wen and not give it back to you until you come and dance again." And they took the big lump right off the old man's face, thinking it must be something very precious. The old man, of course, was overjoyed to lose his wen and left the forest singing. When he got home, he told the story to his wife, who was both surprised and happy. Her old husband looked so handsome without his wen. His neighbour next door also had an ugly wen and when he heard the story, he became very excited. "I could lose my wen in the very same way!" he said, and he went to the same mountain and hid in the same tree. At last, the same elves came for their party. "Now is the time!" said the second old man, and he jumped out of the tree and began to dance. But he could not jig as well as the first old man. The elves were not pleased and shouted:"This dance is not as good as the one we saw last night!" Finally one of them said: "Well, we don't ever want to see him dance again. Let's give him back his wen so he won't come again." With that, the elves took out the wen they had taken from the first old man, put it on his neighbour and chased him out of the forest. So the second old man went sadly home with two wens on his face instead of none." Where Egypt's elite now play, an ancient Roman port on Mediterranean once thrived MARINA, Egypt - Today, it's a sprawl of luxury vacation homes where Egypt's wealthy play on the white beaches of the Mediterranean coast. But 2,000 years ago, this was a thriving Greco-Roman port city, boasting villas of merchants grown rich on the wheat and olive trade. The ancient city, known as Leukaspis or Antiphrae, was hidden for centuries after it was nearly wiped out by a fourth century tsunami that devastated the region. More recently, it was nearly buried under the modern resort of Marina in a development craze that turned this coast into the summer playground for Egypt's elite. Nearly 25 years after its discovery, Egyptian authorities are preparing to open ancient Leukaspis' tombs, villas and city streets to visitors — a rare example of a Classical era city in a country better known for its pyramids and Pharaonic temples. "Visitors can go to understand how people lived back then, how they built their graves, lived in villas or traded in the main agora (square)," said Ahmed Amin, the local inspector for the antiquities department. "Everyone's heard of the resort Marina, now they will know the historic Marina." The history of the two Marinas is inextricably linked. When Chinese engineers began cutting into the sandy coast to build the roads for the new resort in 1986, they struck the ancient tombs and houses of a town founded in the second century B.C. About 200 acres were set aside for archaeology, while everywhere else along the coast up sprouted holiday villages for Egyptians escaping the stifling summer heat of the interior for the Mediterranean's cool breezes. The ancient city yielded up its secrets in a much more gradual fashion to a team of Polish archaeologists excavating the site through the 1990s. A portrait emerged of a prosperous port town, with up to 15,000 residents at its height, exporting grains, livestock, wine and olives to the rest of the Mediterranean.
9 Of The Most Polluted Cities In the World-#1-Lake Karachay, Russia-"Russia's Lake Karachay region is considered to be the most polluted location on Planet Earth. This Russian nuclear weapon production site turned Soviet Union nuclear dumping location has 120 million curies of radioactivity. This radiation level is equivalent to a lethal dose after merely an hour of exposure. According to the NRDC, it is also equal to dumping all of the waste tanks at Washington's Hanford Reservation into a 30-acre lake. In true environmental crime fashion, the radiation has infiltrated the region's groundwater supply." 
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