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Dedicated Space Heroes

Metro | Behind the scene
2008-7-28

SATELLITE engineering involves experts from many walks of life - working together in design, manufacture, experiments and integration of the final product. However, communication is the key in such a huge undertaking....

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Forecasts depend on Shanghai institute

Metro | Behind the scene
2008-7-28

CHINA'S weather satellites, named Fengyun, have been collecting weather information such as cloud maps and wind movements since 1988. And the Fengyun satellites (the name means wind and cloud in Chinese) will...

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Satellite science

Metro | Behind the scene
2008-7-28

WITHOUT satellites, we wouldn't have TV weather forecasts, according to Wang Jiekang, a 67-year-old expert who has devoted his life to satellite development. A councilor at the Shanghai Institute of Satellite...

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The faces behind the forecasts

Metro | Behind the scene
2008-6-23

AT first sight, Shanghai Central Meteorological Station looks like any other office, apart from large computer screens displaying radar images and rain predictions. But it's home to a diverse bunch of forecasters...

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Impressive hard work

Metro | Behind the scene
2008-6-23

SINCE starting to write about the weather forecasts two years ago, people around me have been complaining that my stories ruined their day. Awkward situations they describe include hanging out the washing, only...

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On duty, rain, hail or shine

Metro | Behind the scene
2008-6-23

"WE'RE not perfect, but we will do our best." That's the motto above the door to Shanghai Central Meteorological Station, seen by forecasters every day on their way to work a 24-hour shift. And with farmers,...

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A Mother's Perspective

Metro | Behind the scene
2008-5-2

AS a mother with a 17-month-old son, I fully understand the anxiety and depression of parents whose children have to stay in the intensive care unit. I had the same experience after I delivered my baby, who was...

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Cultivating the desire to help

Metro | Behind the scene
2008-5-2

SOCIAL work is a profession for those with a strong desire to help improve people's lives. It is the job of medical social workers to help patients and their families face a disability, a life-threatening disease...

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Social worker eases the pain

Metro | Behind the scene
2008-5-2

SHANGHAI Children's Medical Center has become the first local hospital to install a camera in its intensive care unit. This allows parents to see their sick children at regular times, with each child shown for...

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Risking their lives ... to save others

Metro | Behind the scene
2008-4-14

ZOU Chenhao says he wants to keep working for the rescue team for the rest of his life, pulling those stricken with despair from the cold clutches of the sea - the way he was saved from death two years ago. The...

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For those in peril on the sea

Metro | Behind the scene
2008-4-14

THE Shanghai-based Donghai Rescue Bureau was established by the Ministry of Communications in June 2003 to offer free rescue services to ships on the East China Sea. The bureau's area extends north to waters...

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Grasping hope from despair

Metro | Behind the scene
2008-4-14

JUST the name "Donghai Rescue Bureau" will conjure up a rough picture in our minds about sea rescue work. But there are more exciting details behind the simple news of shipwrecks and figures of how many sailors...

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Volunteers stepping forward

Metro | Behind the scene
2008-3-24

SHANGHAI'S blood bank wants to get enough platelet to meet the city's demands through voluntary donations within three to five years. For the past two years it has managed to make its whole blood collection meet...

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A gift that really counts

Metro | Behind the scene
2008-3-24

BLOOD, a gift to life. This is the slogan on the wall of the Shanghai Blood Center's blood collection room. Traditional Chinese concepts have taught us blood is very precious and that donating blood could be harmful...

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Blood in the veins

Metro | Behind the scene
2008-3-24

BLOOD - the life force of the human body - flows through our arteries and veins. But at the Shanghai Blood Center it flows in different ways to bring health and life to people. Every bag of donated blood is examined...