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"In an age when the Internet is so developed that we can get information about the technologies and cultures of other countries in several seconds, we don't need to get together to exhibit what can be known online. Expo needs to be redefined. It's not about retelling things that everybody already knows, it's about presenting things which have not been understood by others in a clearer way."

ma Qingyun

Dean of Architecture, University of Southern California, commenting on roles of World Expos in the Internet age.

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"Actually I did not have the courage to propose to her until I read a piece of news about hugging strangers being a rule of a company. I think hugging is a way to bless one another. And I tried to collect blessings from nine people, and use them to propose to my girlfriend. And I did it."

An Expo visitor who hugged nine people in the Expo Garden and proposed to his girlfriend.

(China Daily 09/17/2010)