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Where do you end up?
Saturday, March 8, 2008

Tonight some friends and I were speaking about the climate in various and sundry places and where we would each choose to live when you’d have thought I asked what was the meaning of life. My question was actually why, if the climate of Malaysia was so unpleasant as Theresa who grew up there
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Eating up those Olympics
Saturday, February 23, 2008

So the US Olympics Team is bringing their own food to Beijing. We don’t trust the Chinese to be able to feed our athletes properly. At first, I thought that was a bit presumptuous of us, but then when I read the reasons, it made me a bit worried about buying food here for myself. It seems the
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Is global warming an inevitable consequence of economic growth?
Saturday, February 16, 2008

In an article in the NY Times today, [http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-UN-Climate-Change-China.html ], the Chinese argued that remedies to global warming should be borne more by the US than them because we had been emitting gasses into the environment longer than they had. The underlying
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Journalism in the 21st century
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

This from the NY Times today:
Others in the crowd said their first reaction to word of his death was disbelief. Nicole Vaughan, 24, a law student at New York University, was in a seminar about Jesus when someone sent her a message about Mr. Ledger. She checked the Web, then walked to the
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Japanese Pop
Sunday, January 20, 2008

There is a new station in China called the International Channel Shanghai. By international they mean English and Japanese. And Sunday night seems to be heavy on the Japanese. Tonight they had a music show on and I think it was a top 1o countdown. First I thought it was the top boy bands in
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My life is a roller coaster. Sometimes it makes me sick and sometimes it is thrilling, and I can’t get off alive.

Name: Jill Birthday: September 5th Status: Alive and well Currently living: Shanghai
Hometown: Asheville, NC Favorite Quote: Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. Brendan Gill New Reading: Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Asheville native Marisha Pessl Favorite Movies: Lawrence of Arabia, Tatie Danielle, Werner Herzog’s early stuff, Italian 60’s films, Monsieur Hire, lots of things from the 30’s, Hard Candy, Casablanca and so many more.

Fabulous Cooking Site of my friend Grant

Fashion Star if it ever gets anywhere

Extremely cool graphic novel

My friend Dave’s site

Comedy Central Funny

Go Fug Yourself from Heather

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”

Xiao Erik

Ellen & Doug

ADORABLE ALEX

B-doi AKA Dave

Asheville Family

Judy

Debbie

Hannah & Ellen

Adam, Julia & Katherine