The Art of Action-18



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In the eyes and hearts of these innovators who have struggled and fought to make martial arts films an international success, what does this achievement mean? That just shows you the world's getting closer. The world's getting more open-minded. America's getting more open-minded. They're open enough to accept good things if the thing is good. If the product is good, the film is good, it doesn't matter what language it is, what culture.

Well it means that there is a, some serious audience out there who want to see martial arts film, that's what it means.

I hope to see in the future more Chinese films which will take out real traditional martial arts spirit, that sense of righteousness, to make it shine in a very realistic way.

Just like Bruce Lee. Everyone in the world knows Bruce Lee, but not everyone appreciates martial arts. They appreciated Bruce Lee only. Now people are starting to appreciate martial arts. It is all about the timing.

I can not predict where it goes, but this is a genre I believe it never dies, at least for the Chinese. It's always going up and down. But somehow when you see it is dying, and somebody figure a way to do it, and do something new and exciting, and it will get hot again.

"WuXia", that Chinese term I mentioned at the beginning. "Wu" means martial arts which signifies action. "Xia" conveys chivalry. Wuxia. Say it gently, "Wuxia", and it's like a breath of serenity embracing you. Say it with force, "Wuxia", and you can feel its power. Such is the dichotomy of martial arts films, a genre that was born in a bloody rebellion and continues on today with its own spiritual and creative revolution.

A lot of martial arts' first principle is how to discipline our heart and passions, and to train our own virtue.

To me it's a dance. Because I'm a dancer.

I think martial arts is not, I keep saying this, martial arts is just not two guys fighting each other, you know. Martial art is... martial art itself, I think is more spiritual than anything.

Real martial arts is a kind of discipline for the heart and passions. It is how to train yourself to become a virtuous, just and righteous man.

To me martial art is about interpreting yourself (in) the most devoted, the most honest way. It's an expression. To me martial art is an expression.

I was determined to be loyal. The most important thing is to be loyal. Failure is unimportant. Even if you fail, perhaps you should think about whether you work hard. Be loyal, stay loyal, even if in the future they don't like to watch my kung fu films, I will just be another actor then. I'm faithful, faithful, faithful to this art.

That is a real deep question, they just go and kick ass.

What I find most interesting about the martial arts is the emotional component, you know, and just the discipline that is part and parcel of something that you know to the untrained American mind or, you know whoever it maybe. You know you think of something that's just so decidedly physical, but it's something that is very very emotional, it's very very focused, it's very very cerebral experience.

To me, ok, to me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself. Now it is very difficult to do.

part and parcel:an essential or integral component



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Today's Highlight in History:

On November fourth, 1979, the Iranian hostage crisis began as militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran. For some of the hostages, it was the start of 444 days of captivity.

On this date:
In 1842, Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois.

In 1880, the first cash register was patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio.

In 1884, Democrat Grover Cleveland was elected to his first term as president, defeating Republican James G. Blaine.

In 1922, the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered in Egypt.

In 1939, the United States modified its neutrality stance in World War Two, allowing "cash and carry" purchases of arms by belligerents, a policy favoring Britain and France.

In 1942, during World War Two, Axis forces retreated from El Alamein in North Africa in a major victory for British forces commanded by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.

In 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson.

In 1956, Soviet troops moved in to crush the Hungarian Revolution.

In 1980, Ronald Reagan won the White House as he defeated President Carter by a strong margin.

In 1991, former President Reagan opened his library in Simi Valley, California.

Ten years ago: Iraq issued a new broadside, saying it was prepared to fight a "dangerous war" rather than give up Kuwait. Secretary of State James Baker visited US troops in the Saudi Arabian desert. Douglas Wakiihuri of Kenya and Wanda Panfil of Poland won the New York City Marathon.

Five years ago: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a right-wing Israeli minutes after attending a festive peace rally.

One year ago: Aaron McKinney, who beat gay college student Matthew Shepard and left him to die on the Wyoming prairie, avoided the death penalty by agreeing to serve life in prison without parole and promising never to appeal his conviction. Some ten-thousand Iranian students rallied outside the former US Embassy in Tehran to mark the 20th anniversary of its seizure by Islamic militants.

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"Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you."

-- Horace, Roman poet (65 B.C.-8 B.C.)

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The Bush Administration says it is very worried by the state of emergency declared in Pakistan. President Pervez Musharraf suspended the constitution. He also replaced the chief justice of the Supreme Court, ahead of an expected decision on his presidency.

One of the country's largest agri-businesses is recalling more than a million pounds of ground beef. Cargo says the meat distributed to ten states maybe contaminated with Ecoli. Meat was produced in Pennsylvania, between October 8th and 11th, and was sent to major super markets.

Remnants of hurricane Noel are responsible for high winds and heavy surf on parts of the east coast, the storm is blustering northeast where it crossed the open Atlantic. Forecasters expected it to hit Cape Cod during the high tide between 17.pm.

NASA astronauts performed emergency surgery on a ripped solar panel on the International Space Station. The damage had to be fixed for construction on the space station to continue. Without it, the wind could become a structural hazard.

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Words and their stories Report



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Now the VOA Special English program Words and Their Stories.

Monkeys are very similar to us in many ways. Most have ten fingers and ten toes and brains much like ours. We enjoy watching them. Because they often act like us. In fact, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution says that monkeys and humans share a common ancestor.

Some writer Wein Glabort in the musical Princess Ada Rote. Darwinian man those will behave and best is only a monkeyshaved. His words song to the author Saliwen's music make listeners smile. Will monkeys make us smile too because they are creature’s fool of playful tricks. This is why many monkey expressions are about tricky people or playful acts.

One of these expressions is monkey shines meaning tricks or foolish acts. The meaning is clear if you have ever watched a group of monkeys playfully chasing each other pulling tails, stealing food, doing tricks. So when a teacher says to a group of students, stop those monkey shines right now. You know that the boys and the girls are playing instead of studying.

You might hear that same teacher warns a student not to monkey around with a valuable piece of equipment. You monkey around was something when you do not know what are you doing. You are touching or playing with something you should leave alone. Also you can monkey around when you feel like doing something but have no firm idea of what to do. For example, you tell your friend you are going to spend the day monkeying around with your car. When you do not have any job or go in mind it is just away to past the time.

Monkey business usually means secret. Maybe illegal activities. A news report may say there is monkey business involved in building the new airport was some officials getting secret payments from donors. You may make a monkey out someone when you make that person look foolish. Some people make a monkey out themselves by acting foolish or silly. If one monkey has fun, imagine how much fun / of monkeys can have. If your friend says he had more fun than / of monkeys at your party. You know that he had really a good time.

Monkey suits are coming names for clothes or uniforms soldiers wear. In earlier years in many American cities you would find man playing musical hand organs on the street. Dancing to the music would be the man's small monkey dressed in a tight fitting colorful jacket similar to a military uniform. So people began to call a military uniform a monkey suit.

This VOA Special English program Words and Their Stories was written by M K. Moris Joes was narrator. I'm Shirley Griffith



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Search For Adam -1

最初，上帝创造了天与地。然后，上帝说，“按我的模样创造男人”。《圣经》称这个男人为“亚当”，他是我们所有人的祖先。现在，基因学将指向一位“科学亚当”。亿人有着一个共同的祖先，这的确让人难以相信。如今，美国国家地理学会的遗传学家斯班瑟·威尔斯利用DNA技术带我们一步步追踪这位人类祖先。



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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and Gods said let us make man in our image. The Bible calls him Adam, one man who fathered us all. Now genetics points to a scientific Adam. Microscopic clues in our DNA link every man on earth back to one man, one common ancestor. To understand how this could be, we must discover scientific Adam's lost Eden, enter his world and look him in the eye. At an unexpected crossroads of / Bible and biology, we are headed on a search for Adam.

We look so different, the idea that we are all related seems impossible. It's hard to believe that 6 billion people all share the same ancestor. Yet three of the world's great religions, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism believe that one man fathered us all. That makes Adam a key figure in the beliefs of more than half the world. Now science offers / a chance to find a genetic Adam, a single ancestor whose DNA survives in every man on earth today. From the Inuit of the Arctic, to the Amerindians of the Amazon. From the Nomads of the desert to the businessmen of Wall Street. Spencer Wales a geneticist with National Geographic will lead us on a journey to identify the scientific Adam. And reveal what made him so exceptional that he could father all men on earth. But how do you unravel a chain so many generations’long, a chain that leads all the way to the roots of humanity’s family tree.

I really need a tool, a kind of time machine/ to allow me to do that, a genetic time machine

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Today's Highlight in History:

On November fifth, 1940, President Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office as he defeated Republican challenger Wendell L. Willkie.

On this date:

In 1605, the "Gunpowder Plot" failed as Guy Fawkes was seized before he could blow up the English Parliament.

In 1872, suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined 100 dollars for attempting to vote for President Grant. (She never paid the fine.)

In 1911, Calbraith P. Rodgers arrived in Pasadena, California, completing the first transcontinental airplane trip in 49 days.

In 1912, Woodrow Wilson was elected president, defeating Progressive Republican Theodore Roosevelt and incumbent Republican William Howard Taft.

In 1946, Republicans captured control of both the Senate and the House in midterm elections.

In 1956, Britain and France started landing forces in Egypt during fighting between Egyptian and Israeli forces around the Suez Canal. (A cease-fire was declared two days later.)

In 1968, Richard M. Nixon won the presidency, defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace.

In 1974, Ella T. Grasso was elected governor of Connecticut, the first woman to win a gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband.

In 1989, death claimed pianist Vladimir Horowitz in New York at age 85 and singer-songwriter Barry Sadler in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, at age 49.

In 1994, former President Reagan disclosed he had Alzheimer's disease.

Ten years ago: Rabbi Meir Kahane, the Brooklyn-born Israeli extremist who campaigned to drive Arabs from Israel, was shot to death after a speech at a New York hotel. (Egyptian native El Sayyed Nosair was acquitted of murder and convicted of weapons charges in state court; he was later convicted in connection with the slaying in federal court.)

Five years ago: An endless procession of Israelis filed past the simple wooden coffin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who'd been assassinated the night before.

One year ago: US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson declared Microsoft Corporation a monopoly, saying the software giant's aggressive actions were "stifling innovation" and hurting consumers. Pope John Paul the Second began his first visit to India in 13 years.

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"Examine what is said, not him who speaks."

                                                                                                                     -- Arab proverb