[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.