tooth pic
“we’d like to thank yao ming for loaning us his teeth for today’s demonstration.”
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09.07.2003, 9:28 PM · Humor, Photos · Comments (1)
buy me some peanuts and … soy sauce rice crackers?
something almost made me drop my tsingtao on friday (i said almost). at a bar, i glanced at a television expecting to see beckham or billiards or some bad chinese drama where the guys sport shaved heads and ponytails. instead, i saw my beloved new york yankees take on the toronto blue jays. i was stunned — my first time watching baseball in mainland china.
09.07.2003, 5:10 PM · Observations, Sports · Comments (2)
from the “it’s about time” department …
hong kong declares war on smoking (smoking, on an extended vacation in shanghai, could not be reached for comment)
bush’s job approval rating goes down (meanwhile, queer eye for the straight guy ratings continue to soar)
09.07.2003, 4:45 PM · News
worth reading: the dark underside of china’s economy
from the New York Times …
HANGZHOU, China — Migrant workers are China’s untouchables. They are assumed to be behind every unsolved crime. They are the yokels on the street corners of every city, barely able to speak Mandarin Chinese, wide-eyed with fascination or fear.They are also the dark underside of China’s economic success, which has been marked by annual growth of 8 percent for more than a decade and exports to the United States growing so fast that they have surpassed Japan’s. In general these people are vulnerable, pliable, cheap to employ and easy to suppress.
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09.07.2003, 2:00 AM · News
worth reading: will china’s boom go bust?
from the New York Times …
GUANGZHOU, China, Sept. 3 — Looming through the gray smog of every big Chinese city these days, high above the incessant rattle of jackhammers, are the construction cranes, slowly swinging back and forth over huge steel and concrete boxes wrapped with fine lattices of bamboo scaffolding.The question here and across the country, though, is how much longer the cranes will stay busy, and with them an economy that is powering a big chunk of the world’s growth and terrifying trading partners from Tokyo to Washington to Brussels.
While this week’s visit by Treasury Secretary John W. Snow has focused attention on the value of China’s currency, the yuan, the worry in China is that the economy is overheating.
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09.07.2003, 1:54 AM · News