12/08/2008
No Olympics for me...
No Olympics for me.... and not because of any political reasons. I actually REALLY want to cheer the home team on.....
http://www.macworld.com/article/134935/2008/08/olympics...
I hate AT&T and Microsoft. I hope they get sued for being a monopoly again.
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09/08/2008
Scheduled C Sections for 080808
China
I am amazed what people fuss over when they are expecting a baby. As if there wasn't enough to do....
Chinese couples hoping for lucky birth on 08/08/08 - News and Features, Olympics - The Independent
Source: www.independent.co.uk
In Beijing's main maternity hospital, there is an even more expectant air than usual. All of the 200 beds in the wards are full, and of the scores of soon-to-be mothers, most have scheduled a Caesarean section to ensure that most auspicious and treasured of babies – an Olympic baby.
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05/08/2008
Freedom in China: Two Views
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04/08/2008
Angry Youths, Hidden China, The resentful Dragon.
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Olympics, Tianamen Square Massacre and Yahoo
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02/02/2008
Watch Hu Jia's Video of Being under house arrest
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12/03/2007
Dr. Sun Yat Sen's Birthday
China
Today is Dr. Sun Yat Sen's Birthday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Yat-sen
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12/10/2006
A Marker for a Murdered Tibetan Nun
In 1990 I went to what was then the newly freed East Germany. We stopped at the Brandenburg Gate, the gate that opens the border between the Berlin Wall. On the west side were placards of names for every East German Escapee who was shot by the army as they tried to cross the border.
There will be no such marker for the said young woman. This is mine..
A mountaineer has posted a photograph of the teenage Tibetan refugee nun shot dead by Chinese soldiers in front of dozens of climbers on the Himalayan slopes.
Slovenian mountaineer Pavle Kozjek captured the aftermath of the Chinese attack, which occurred on September 30 as about 70 Tibetan refugees made their way towards the 5700 metre high Nangpa La Pass - about 20 kilometres west of Mount Everest - on their way from Tibet to Nepal. More
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