Man dumps wife after seeing Web prophecy

A Xi'an resident divorced his wife of three years after logging on to an online fortune-telling website.

Ma, 27, of Shaanxi Province, led a simple and happy life with his wife until the day he went into this website that told him his wife would bring bad luck to him and his family. Ma hastily filed for a divorce. Ironically, his former wife has re-married and is leading a good life and it is Ma who has lost his job and is in a mess.

Recently, he went public with his story so others could learn from it and not rush into impulsive decisions.

Live scorpions keep migrant worker going

A middle-aged migrant worker from Dalian, Liaoning, has developed a bizarre taste - for live scorpions. Wei Qinglin, 37, said, "the stronger, the better."

Wei tasted his first scorpion in 1998. "I feel sleepy all day if I go without them. I feel more energetic after eating them," he said. "I have to eat them because I feel cold all day all year round." He also told local media on Friday that he recovered from a venomous snake bite last year, without going in for any treatment.

(China Daily 06/28/2007)

（英语点津 Linda 编辑）

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Matt Doran is an award-winning American newspaper journalist and an undergraduate student at Albion College. He is currently a polisher for China Daily Website and is on summer break from Beijing Foreign Studies University, where he will resume his study of Chinese in the fall.