Balancing a cracking old tradition

Teachers and children balance eggs at a kindergarten in Zaozhuang, Shandong province, March 21, 2011, to mark the vernal equinox. [Photo/CFP]

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The "Super Moon" arrives at its closest point to the Earth in 2011.

The probability of being exposed to a life-threatening level of radiation is quite slim.

Worried Chinese shoppers stripped stores of salt on radiation fears.