Common Talk Weeklyshuang yu zhou kan
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World in Pictures
December 31, 2003

Strange but true news
2003年奇闻轶事扫描

Hot dog eating contest
美吃热狗大赛日本选手夺冠
Takera Kobayashi of Japan wins the annual Fourth of July Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest in New York by eating 44 and1/2 hot dogs in twelve minutes.

80-year-old granny skydives
80高龄老人跳伞庆生
Daredevil granny Geneva Crawford celebrated her 80th birthday in style — by taking a skydive from 15,000 ft. The pensioner hurtled to earth at over 125 mph after leaping from a plane before parachuting to earth.

Flying together
人类与鸟儿共同翱翔天空
After the success of the movie "The Migratory People", the gooses of Christian Moullec became the stars of air shows like here in villers near Chateauroux, France.

Cliff dinner at Hanging Rock
冒险家悬崖进餐为癌症儿童募款
Six diners enjoy a meal during a Cliff Dinner 2003 at Hanging Rock in the Blue Mountains of Sydney, June 1st. The adventurers took 90 minutes to finish their lunch suspended more than 100 meters above the ground to raise money for children with cancer.

Apple powerbooks ad
姚明与美侏儒明星联袂演绎电脑广告
An advertisement for two new Apple powerbooks uses Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets and Verne Troyer , "Mini-Me" of Austin Powers to pitch the 17 and 12 inch models following Steve Jobs' keynote address at MacWorld in San Francisco on Jan. 7.

Hemingway look-alike competition
美海明威模仿大赛
Mike Stack, 62, New York, a semi-retired electrical contractor, defeated over l50 other candidates on July 18 and was selected as the winner of the 2003 "Papa" Hemingway Society Look-alike Title. Stack is shown on stage, surrounded by past winners of the Papa title pointing at his wife. He is holding a bust of Hemingway.