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Leading the Blind

Lin Miaoke is my idol.  With pigtails hanging down from her cute little 9 year old head, she wowed the world during the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics as she flawlessly performed on stage during a version of “Ode to the Motherland.”  It was a perfect, clean-cut lip-synching debut.   It didn’t matter that the voice that the world [...]

Collision

According to the JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) at NASA, we are relatively safe from being hit by any large asteroid or comet: “The most dangerous asteroids, capable of a global disaster, are extremely rare…These bodies impact the Earth only once every 1,000 centuries.  Comets in this size range are thought to impact even less frequently, perhaps [...]

Beijing Man

“I like Americans.” This was one of the first lines that Strong Horse told me on our first encounter at a Thanksgiving party.  The party, held last year to celebrate my personal favorite American holiday, was hosted by members of the Beijing Hash House Harriers.  The ‘Hash House Harries’ refer to themselves as “a drinking club with [...]

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