[00:01]heap
[00:03]For the first one, a story collection called "A Thousand Years
[00:08]of Good Prayers," Li won a heap of awards: the Whiting Writers'
[00:14]Award for emerging authors, the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award,
[00:20]the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the Guardian
[00:26]first book award.
[00:30]heave
[00:33]On a holiday last week in the woodland suburbs of Sofia,
[00:38]thousands of Bulgarians were appalled to see a bombing fleet of 50 planes
[00:46]appear over the distant capital and proceed to heave things overboard.
[00:56]bare
[00:59]Protect nails with a coat of clear nail varnish or a few dabs of Vaseline.
[01:06]Use gloves, mitts or your bare hands to apply: if you choose the latter,
[01:16]wash your hands with a nail brush between applications to avoid
[01:22]orange palms.
[01:28]fare
[01:30]Train fares may have risen an average of 1.1% this year,
[01:36]yet there are still plenty of cheap tickets out there - if you are
[01:42]prepared to be flexible and book ahead.
[01:47]rare
[01:49]The idea that some groups of people may be more intelligent
[01:54]than others is one of those hypotheses that dare not speak its name.
[02:01]But Gregory Cochran is prepared to say it anyway. He is that rare bird,
[02:07]a scientist who works independently of any institution.
[02:20]aboard
[02:21]The Red Cross response in Haiti includes delivering basic supplies
[02:27]like tarps, blankets and hygiene kits to people gathering
[02:32]in makeshift camps, building latrines and training Creole-speaking
[02:39]volunteers to work as translators aboard a United States Navy ship
[02:46]where Haitians will be taken for medical care.
[02:53]massacre
[02:55.04]A:Many Chinese people won't forget the Nanjing Massacre in 1937.
[03:00.86]B: No, they won't.