Chinese students spend summer holidays trading faces
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BEIJING  -- Like a growing number of students in   China, Pan Ou will spend her university vacation going under   the knife in a plastic surgery procedure she hopes will boost   her chances of getting a good job after graduation.
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Students are stirring over cancellation of their public transport privileges and a new draft law.
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Summer vacation is roughly 120 days away. But once it arrives, it will bring 104 glorious days before school starts again.
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School and college leavers in England are to get the chance to compete for six-week trips abroad.
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A new GCSE in Chinese is being offered, following demand from schools and business.
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RIGA, Latvia  - The middle-aged teacher sweated  and swore as he switched awkwardly between Russian and Latvian,  taking his distracted class through the geography of China's  Chang Jiang River valley.
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Fourth- and eighth-grade American students still have work to do to catch up with their counterparts in Asian countries in math and science, international school officials reported Tuesday.
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For Rem Koolhaas, designer of the soaring CCTV tower in Beijing, a commission with ties to his student days.
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As Europe's workers take a few weeks of holiday this summer, their American colleagues will be lucky to get a few days off work, says a report published by the European Trade Union Institute.
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The consummate ambition that Chinese artists brought to diminutive scale is a striking feature of the Metropolitan Museumâs small late-summer show.
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ZHENGZHOU, China -- At first, the Web site director and his schoolteacher wife sent their 5-year-old son to a Confucian school in this central Chinese city simply because it was two minutes from home. But the more they learned about the school, the more they liked what they saw.
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By Ellen Whyte  WHEN the family is gathered together to celebrate Chinese New Year this weekend, young adults looking for a little postprandial rest away from noisy junior members might want to venture into online treasure hunt.
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From Minnesota to New York, some schoolchildren are getting an extra long weekend because of the bitter chill that has spread over the eastern half of the country.
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ZHENGZHOU, China -- A tide of more than 30,000 students with polished rÃÂ©sumÃÂ©s and high hopes surged into a job fair here so eager to meet with employers that they shattered four glass doors and splayed the side walls of an escalator in what became a near riot.
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Some Flushing residents are studying Mandarin to be able to communicate with their new neighbors.
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Chinese government officials who came to Washington this week for economic talks got an extra lesson over the past two days in the complexities of America's divided government.
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The vast majority of Chinese  schoolchildren chose to stay home and surf the Internet during  the summer holidays rather than play outside, state media said  on Tuesday, citing a survey.