Fri Aug 6, 2010 7:09 AM EDT
The rattling steel-link chain was starting to freak us out. At each rattle, we glanced nervously over to where the sound was coming from.
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Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:45 AM EST
BEIJING – The number eight is considered so auspicious here that the Chinese leadership decided to launch the Summer Olympic Games at 8 p.m. on the eighth day of the eighth month of the year.
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Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:41 AM EDT
At least twice a week, Wu Ying goes to a local gym in western Beijing to work out. She joins a group of girlfriends and the occasional guy, and for a couple of hours they train with a dance instructor in a glass-walled room surrounded by treadmills and step machines.
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