Visitors have been flocking to see a baby boar named Uribo running with baby monkey Miwa tightly hanging on to its back rodeo-style at a zoo in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto Prefecture.
Both are 4 months old and have been sheltered by the zoo since June after becoming motherless. The two have become seemingly inseparable since the zookeeper put them together in a cage in early August, according to officials of Fukuchiyama City Zoo.
[source: Kyoto News]**********
日本京都福知山动物园有一对知名的「猴猪好哥儿们」,名为Miwa的小猴子和名为Uribo的山猪,因为同样是孤儿,从小牠们就形影不离,喜欢一起悠閒去散步。图为21日Miwa「骑」在Uribo的背上,一副威风凛凛的样子,逗趣的画面让围观小朋友都笑开怀。(李雅琳编译/美联社)
[source: 中时电子报]For much of his adult life the unremarkable-looking bloke in slacks and sensible woollen jumper opposite me has been the richest man on earth.
Worth an estimated £34billion, William Henry Gates III, as Microsoft founder Bill Gates was christened, could have settled for growing old in limitless luxury.
Now 54, he ranks alongside the Medicis, Romanovs, Rothschilds and Rockefellers as one of history’s wealthiest individuals.
But Gates has no interest in using his billions to launch a dynasty. He is giving away his fortune.
The father-of-three has unleashed his planet-sized brain and the extraordinary dynamism that made Microsoft the all-conquering global software giant to defeat global poverty.
14 September 2010, Rome – FAO and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today said that the number of hungry people in the world remains unacceptably high despite expected recent gains that have pushed the figure below 1 billion.
The new estimate of the number of people who will suffer chronic hunger this year is 925 million — 98 million down from 1.023 billion in 2009.
“But with a child dying every six seconds because of undernourishment related problems, hunger remains the world’s largest tragedy and scandal,” said FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf. “This is absolutely unacceptable.”
(吉隆坡讯)家庭主妇陈颐袀两年前祸不单行,她在诞下第四胎后,被诊断患上围產期心肌病,数个月后左半身又中风,一度令她活在绝望之中。原本以為等心无望,更遑论换心,但上天待她不薄,在她耐心等候近一年后,就安排有缘人“送心”给她,让她得以继续当个称职的妈妈和妻子。
从今年2月踏出国家心臟中心后,陈颐袀一直小心翼翼呵护著这颗得来不易的心臟,虽然换心手术使她的肢体欠灵活且动作缓慢,加上举手抬脚不易,但她在过去半年来可是閒不下来。她不但忙著研究食谱、烹煮佳餚满足家人口腹之欲,同时也忙著照顾和教导孩子、忙著进行復健治疗,以及“忙著”适应善心者捐出的心臟。时间对她而言,严重不够用。儘管忙碌的生活将她压得喘不过气来,但她却乐此不疲,只因活著就是一种福气。
陈颐袀是继郑慧仪之后,国内第二名成功换心的病患。这颗心臟,相信是遇车祸脑死的17岁少年吴凯旋捐给她的。
“打了一个转回来,生活似乎好像回到原点,可是当中确是出现巨大改变。在我的体内,掛著的是好心人赠予的心臟,我必须适应、好好珍惜和呵护它,不让它受到伤害。至於我的躯体,我必须接受它暂时难以恢復以前敏捷的现实,学习放慢步伐去生活。”
她说, 她每天都在学习如何重新再生活。