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This little news piece on CNN led me to ebay. There I found the reported item ("Private Dinner for Five with Sarah Palin"), along with a related auction "Not Dinner with Sarah Palin, dinner with a real family" (see below). Isn't America great?! As of now, there's no one bidding. But we'll find out how many true Palin fans are out there eager to dine with Ms. Palin, touted as "the chance of a lifetime." (Personally, I wouldn't do it for more than $250, out of concern that people might call me 2

I just wanted to share with you all a little email note I received this morning from the Innocence Project. I'm grateful for everything on this Thanksgiving, knowing there are many less fortunate people out there in the world. I believe together we all can make a difference in those people's lives. Please visit www.innocenceproject.org. -------------------------------------- Dear XXX, On this Thanksgiving ¡ª the first one I¡¯m spending with my family since 1984 ¡ª I thought I would send a note to

Just something interesting to read or talk about over the weekend. ====================================== Looking for Simpler Life, Lawyer Burns Harvard Law Diploma Posted Oct 28, 2008, 03:11 pm CDT By Molly McDonough Ever want to ditch the rat race? Burn your diploma and take a vow of simplicity? If you thought about it, but could never quite muster the courage to strike a match, you can live vicariously through "Jack," a Washington, D.C., a 30-something lawyer who announced on his blog

I was about to call it a night and head back home when I heard the sound of fireworks outside my window, apparently coming from Ellis Island, south of Manhattan. Here're a few snapshots I just took a few minutes ago. I guess it was celebratory fireworks. Have a nice long week and recover from the grief and shock we all received in the past two weeks.

From every tragedy comes a human triumph. Icarus¡¯s tragedy in Greek mythology inspired many and led to the ultimate success of Yves Rossy on May 14, 2008. His great accomplishment, itself an example of human determination, was largely unnoticed because it was untimely. The world has been lamenting on yet another epic-scale tragedy: the deaths of tens of thousands of Chinese in an earthquake. But the message in his story should not be ignored. Out of this recent tragedy in Sichuan will also rise a peopl

Just read excerpts in Newsweek from Fareed Zakaria's new book THE POST-AMERICAN WORLD--The Rise Of The Rest. I enjoyed his earlier book, THE FUTURE OF FREEDOM. This one is equally thought-provoking. "The world has shifted from anti-Americanism to post-Americanism." So declares the author. "We are living through the third great power shift in modern history...(the first, the rise of the Western world around the 15th century; the second, the United States): the rise of the rest." However, "[t]his wi

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The world is increasingly feeling the tremor of a now waking and steadily walking giant. ----------------- China's influence spreads around world By WILLIAM FOREMAN, Associated Press Writer For nearly three decades, Chinese peasants have left their villages for crowded dormitories and sweaty assembly lines, churning out goods for world markets. Now, China is turning the tables. Here in the Australian Outback, Shane Padley toils in the scorching heat, 2,000 miles from his home, to bu

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I just had a devastating experience. After spending 20 plus minutes typing in the REPLY box, I accidentally hit the "Esc" key. All my writings were instantly wiped out. I recommend execution (by means to be determined) of the executive director of the IT department of Maya Caf¨¦ if this writer secret trap is not fixed within 72 hours.

Does anybody here have any expperience with any software that supports Wubi on Windows XP? Ever since my computer upgraded by itself into XP SP2 months ago, I have been totally out of luck with typing in Chinese. While I'm aware of the PingYin input, it's extremely slow and my PingYin is not that great. Any help or insight here will be appreciated. You may either post your tips and help here, or if you prefer, you may also send an email to xufengzi@gmail.com. Thank you all in advance!

This speech parallels Steven Jobs' commencement speech in many aspects. Both speaker are college dropouts, amazing human beings, and remarkable visionaries. There is one notable distinction: Steven Jobs offers his personal insights into individual success, Bill Gates provides a map to the collective success of humanity as a whole. Both types of wisdom are equally valuable. We need to be successful ourselves first before we may help and make others successful. -----------------------------------------

By SIMON ELEGANT/BEIJING Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007 (www.time.com) As China prepares to celebrate the Lunar New Year this weekend, there is much hyperbole about the country's gleaming new skyscrapers, swelling middle class, dazzling preparations for the Olympics and so forth. But it is always worth getting a reality check on what underlies that rosy picture, the fact that China remains a highly repressive authoritarian state. I met recently in a small Beijing cafe with social activist Teng Biao and publi

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This is a wonderful piece by Michael Gartner, editor of newspapers large and small and president of NBC News. In 1997, he won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. Well worth reading And a few good laughs are guaranteed. -------------------------------------------- My father never drove a car. Well, that's not quite right. I should say I never saw him drive a car. He quit driving in 1927, when he was 25 years old, and the last car he drove was a 1926 Whippet. "In those days," he told me when he

A fascinating read! ----------------------------------------- JERUSALEM (AP) -- In a precedent-setting decision, an Israeli court has ruled that a dead soldier's family can have his sperm impregnated into the body of a woman he never met. Keivan Cohen, 20, was shot dead in 2002 by a Palestinian sniper in the Gaza Strip. He was single and left no will. But at the urging of his parents, a sample of his sperm was taken two hours after his death and has been stored in a hospital since. When the family

One of those amazing things in nature... ===================================================== Chocolatiers see image of Virgin Mary By GILLIAN FLACCUS, Associated Press Writer Fri Aug 18, 6:14 AM ET FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. - As a chocolatier to the rich and famous, Martucci Angiano has posed with many celebrities. But on Thursday she held in her hand a figure that dazzles her more than any Hollywood star: a 2-inch-tall column of chocolate drippings that workers at her gourmet chocolate compa

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Su Doku is one of the very few games that transcend culture and education. Unlike some cross-word puzzles popular in the U.S., Su Doku doesn't require a mastery of the English language and a large vocabulary. It works directly with logic and reasoning in their "purest" form possible. Although its rules are culturally independent, it is a hybrid of both Eastern and Western cultures, as the present game was shaped through a long trend of import/export among several developed countries. I'm a littl

Some of you here might be interested in this subject. Yale and China A Briefing on a 170-Year-Old Relationship I. HISTORICAL TIES AND OVERVIEW Earliest Contacts. Yale¡¯s relationship with China is deeper and longer than that of any other university in the United States. One of the earliest connections was established by Peter Parker, who graduated from Yale College in 1831 after studying theology and received his medical degree from the Yale School of Medicine in 1834. The following year, Parker op

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