Teenagers were enjoying exercise with their jumping shoes at the People's Square of Guiyang，on Dec．8，2008．The jumping shoes became popular among teenagers after they were used in the performance

of the Beijing Olympic closing ceremony．

An eatable Christmas card，which is made from potato starch（淀粉）paper and printed with food coloring instead of ink，has been designed by a British company to try to be as “green” as possible．The cards came out quite well last Christmas Day．They're not very tasty but the company will do flavored ones this year．

Li Tongzhu，a 64-year-old retired（退休的）man，finished his paper-cut work

of “Riverside Scenes at the Qingming Festival” in Zaozhuang City，Shandong Province in December，2008．Li had spent 7 months finishing the 3.10-metre-long paper-cut work．

Alison Spooner，a 27-year-old write woman，and her husband Dean' Durant，a 33-year-old black man，are a mixed-race British couple．They had their second black and white twins in November，2008．Their first black and white twins were born in 2001．