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Beijing’s Spider Men
Beijing discourages high-rises, no ShangHai-styled skyscrapers. CBD’s Hyatt Park holds the current record: 64 stories of nearly 250 meters. Others are strangely uniform at about 60 meters, or about 30 stories. Not too high and consistent enough to create an … Continue reading
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When do you go to lunch?
Day Light Saving comes with many assumptions; the key one is that it saves energy, and therefore money. In summer, when days are long, why not go home and enjoy your lives under the bright sun: catch a short round … Continue reading
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User’s Manual to Human Body 人体使用手册
User’s Manual to Human Body 人体使用手册 峿¸…å¿ ISBN: 7536046316 Pub. Date: 2006å¹´1月 Publisher: 花城出版社 Cross posted at http://blogs.sun.com/syw. If a free and legal version of the same book is available online, would you go to the bookstore and buy a … Continue reading
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Hilary-Obama Ticket
This 2008 election made fools out of pundits. Which of them even considered McCain just a few months ago? Bright-eyed, confident, 72-year-old, he is too pleased to see the attrition war on the other side. Hilary definitely did not expect … Continue reading
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DunHuang Grottoes 敦煌石窟
The construction of DunHuang Grottoes started around 360AD and lasted over a thousand years. Buddhaists transformed hundreds of caves into temples and decorated them lavishly with murals and scupltures. They imported art styles from India and mid-east. They captured ancient … Continue reading
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A World Perspective 细心看世界
Always have facts with you. Visionaries and pundits dazzle you with grand predictions or scare you with warnings of dire consequences. You need facts for perspectives. Find the most populous and prosperous countries in the world, and remove those only … Continue reading
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Fly Clear
At airport, someone zoomed through the security line with a privileged air, leaving us normal people enviously curious. I observed. Impressive machines hide behind the entrance guarded by burly uniformed. “How do I?” “Have 30 minutes?” I did and could … Continue reading
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Resident Evil ç”ŸåŒ–å±æœº
Resident EvilsMilla JovovichPub. Date: 2002, 2004, 2007 I am so sorry. Unlike more sophisticated people that watched Oscar nominees, I watch all 3 Resident Evils this weekend: Biohazard, Apocalypse, and Extinction. I feel so mindless, just like when I finished RoboCop … Continue reading
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Beijing Markets
Foods represent an interesting economic phenomenum in China. The essentially same product may have a range of prices that can be 100 fold: the high end is 100 times more than the low end. It bewilders me that vendors in … Continue reading
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