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Photo: Wang Weiwei established China's only kendo club in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, in 2009 and holds three classes a week. Kendo emphasizes etiquette and repetitive movements, and requires equipment costing at least 1,000 yuan ($163).

Bilingual: Who will be the "last survivors" on future Earth? Scientists from Scotland created a forecast for Earth's environment billions of years from now and found that only microbes would be able to cope with the extreme conditions that the solar changes would bring.

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Blog: When Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke speaks, global markets react. It's no surprise that the world's largest economy sets the tone for global economic trends, but sometimes it can go too far and raise unnecessary anxiety among investors.

(China Daily USA 07/04/2013 page3)