Name your child "Olympics"

The First, October 24, 2007

At long last, the front pages of different papers have different news.

The top headline in The First today says that there are 3,491 people in China named "Aoyun" (奥运), or "Olympics." 3,216 are male and 275 female; Beijing has 6 Aoyun. Other people share a name Fuwa, mascots of the games, but that might be merely a coincidence.

The front page picture shows the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra rehearsing beside a dinosaur fossil in the Beijing Natural History Museum. The Canadian group performed for the public last night and will be on stage tonight at the Forbidden City Concert Hall.

Marika Domanski-Lyfors (photo on the left), the first foreign coach of China's Women's football team, resigned "for family and heath reasons." The Chinese Football Association announced her decision yesterday.

Other headlines:

• China's first lunar probe, Chang'e I, will be launched at 6:05 PM tonight at the Xichang Launch Center, Sichuan Province.
• A proposal to construct the Anli Road Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system was approved yesterday. The project follows earlier BRTs going out of the city on Chaoyang Road and the arterial road south of Qianmen. It should go into service in June, 2008.