Video: The leaves come 'alive'

15:54, February 06, 2018

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  Video: 3 billion trips in 40 days! Come experience China's Spring Festival travel rush

  The Spring Festival travel rush, known as “Chunyun,” is when hundreds of millions of Chinese return to their hometowns or travel around the country to celebrate China’s lunar new year. This year, travelers will make about 2.98 billion trips during the 2018 Spring Festival travel rush, between February 1 and March 12.It puts enormous pressure on the transportation system. Transportation

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  Female genital mutilation continues as change comes slowly

  The 25-year-old Kedija had her external genitalia removed and her vagina sewn up when she was just seven days old. She has faced a lifetime of pain.“I was unable to hold my urine for long,” she told The Associated Press. “I isolated myself from socializing because of that. Later when my menstruation began, because the opening was too tiny, the

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  School system’s appeals process leaves some minorities out

  It’s an annual rite in Fairfax County, which has one of the wealthiest, best-educated populations in America: Hundreds of second-graders troop off to private psychologists for IQ tests to prove they’re worthy of advanced academic programs in the public schools.The competition is fierce. Acceptance, some parents believe, can be the key to getting into prestigious Thomas Jefferson High School for