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Mining exposition

“We deed NOT come to Chin-ah to pleeey arrround!”  The African exhibitor from Zimbabwe holds both hands out in front of him as if he’s squeezing a brick of gold between his palms.  He looks me dead in the eye, his gut busting out over his beltline like a gigantic stone about to roll off [...]

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 [...]

Journey to Ningxia: The Grey Hair’s Song

Morning “I stayed up all night praying.  Didn’t sleep at all,” Paul says to me when we meet in the hotel lobby in the morning.  He seems wide awake and full of energy. “You prayed all night?”  I ask him. “All night,” he says.  “And you know what…” he pauses, “a miracle happened…My friend asked me to pray [...]

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