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中评社香港4月20日电／人民网消息，19日在巴黎共和国广场举行的主题为“支持北京奥运 反对媒体不公”的游行示威集会上，最精彩的一幕莫过于留法学生李洹发表的长篇法文演讲。他富有哲理和逻辑思辩的行文，地道的法语，播音员般圆润、激昂、优美的嗓音，流畅而又连珠炮般的语速，让在场的中国留学生和华人为之欢呼，让法国人听得震惊和入神。
　　他们怀疑这是中国人吗？然而，他就是来自中国西安的一名学生。目前就读于里尔第二大学，高等商学院的一名硕士生。李洹同学曾登上法国电视二台，与该台驻北京记者就有关中国问题进行过针尖对麦芒的辩论，他的语言和学识功底赢得了对方的尊敬，为中国人守住了尊严，在留学生中引起了轰动。

　　李洹演讲结束，似乎成了明星，中国人和法国人争相与他拍照。该演讲法文稿是李洹自己撰写。谈到他稿子的跨度和深度时，他说，生活在这么一种舆论状态下，一有时间就去研读大量中外文资料，差不多都成了西藏问题研究专家了。其动力和激情皆来自于：自己是个中国人，在国外更爱国。宁可让自己受委屈，也不能让祖国受委屈。

中评社香港4月17日电／“五一当天为抵制法货日”、“不去家乐福”……连续几天，一条条类似的短信通过手机、MSN或者网络论坛迅速传遍内地，网友们正通过各式各样现代化的通讯方式自发掀起一场抵制法货的运动。目前该运动已经波及LV、Dior、欧莱雅（L'Oreal）、肯德基，甚至法国汽车等。

　　综合《每日经济新闻》及内地媒体十六日报道，目前，拒进家乐福的抗议活动，很快开始波及到其他法国产品。在一些女性购物论坛里，有网友将所有的法国护肤品牌、酒类品牌、服装品牌一一列出，如碧欧泉、欧莱雅等，当然还包括LVMH集团旗下的Kenzo、LV、Dior等多个著名品牌。网友特别呼吁：今后不要购买这些品牌的产品。

　　部分女性罢买法系化妆品

　　内地媒体随机采访的10位女性中，有6位都表示经过火炬传递受阻一事后，将不再购买法系化妆品，还有一名受访者表示，在事情发生后已经将自己正在使用的欧莱雅产品停用。

　　上周起，“抵制家乐福”这条口号通过网络论坛、聊天工具和手机短信流传，理由是奥运火炬在法国传递期间遭到干扰，其大股东路易威登公司曾多次资助达赖集团。
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Over the past few weeks Chinese bloggers and people on internet forums have been reacting to events in Tibet and the protests disrupting the torch relay.

This is a summary of some of the trends so far.

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ScienceDaily (Apr. 16, 2008) — The world's oldest recorded tree is a 9,550 year old spruce in the Dalarna province of Sweden. The spruce tree has shown to be a tenacious survivor that has endured by growing between erect trees and smaller bushes in pace with the dramatic climate changes over time.

Samuel Ullman

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of
rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a
quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of
the deep springs of life.

Youth means a tempera-mental predominance of courage over timidity, of the
appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of
60 more than a boy of 20.　Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.　We
grow old by deserting our ideals.

Nearly everybody has to communicate with machines at some level, be it mobile phones, personal computers or annoying, automated customer support ‘solutions’. But the communication is on the machine’s terms, not the person’s.

The problem is easy enough to identify: prodigious increases in processing power, giving machines greater capacities and capabilities, have not been matched by a similar leap forward in interface technology.

Some French media seemed quite excited about what happened during the Olympic torch relay in Paris a few days ago. Le Figaro ran a headline story titled "The torch's fiasco in Paris", while the top story in La Libération reads as "Give China a slap in the face", describing the "fiasco" in a kind of schaden-freude. Hysterical excitement can be seen in their descriptions.