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The Goddess of America: Columbia
Mon Jul 25, 2011 8:24 PM EDT
There is a Goddess of America, and her name is Columbia. This is not a witty line portraying a concept. I am not using an analogy to liken the capital to a Divine Mother Figure. I am simply stating facts: There is a Goddess of America, and her name is Columbia.
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Can A Satellite Read Your Thoughts? - Eye-Witness Testimony
Sun Mar 6, 2011 5:49 AM EST
If you have been following this series for the last year or so, you would know that I demonstrated how naturally occurring radio signals can be reconstructed by computer to betray thoughts, feelings, sight and sound and how such information can be communicated back to the body.
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Say it and die: Fossil fuel costs more
Fri Feb 16, 2007 6:57 AM EST
The first "red flag" upon reading of the plane crash was why someone so involved in renewable energy would fly his own aircraft to a holiday destination.
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Romance ensures perfect timing for labor; an orgy of survival
Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:15 PM EST
Valentine's Day was clearly a pagan conspiracy to get all the fertile young people hopping into bed and bopping about on the same night.
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Family harmony meatballs
Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:46 PM EST
WE had a big garden back in Vermont and a country house heated by a wood stove. I would dry herbs from the kitchen ceiling and toast crumbs while cooking down sauces or simmering pot roasts and porridges atop the household kiln throughout the day.
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Auspicious move, just in case
Fri Jan 12, 2007 4:36 AM EST
WHAT is the most auspicious day to move in this month and does it really matter?
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Sex in a tube
Fri Jan 5, 2007 12:54 AM EST
Please follow explicitly these instructions on what you are supposed to do in a twinkling, how long it takes to get the skin tight, what to do with your hand, where to place your gum and what to wipe up with afterward, and finally a caution about deposits that could lead to child …
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So, you think you're right, huh?
Tue Jan 2, 2007 9:22 PM EST
THINGS are not always what you would expect.
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Centered in the heart to create reality
Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:34 AM EST
NEW Year's resolutions are as easy or hard to keep as carving a phoenix.
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Happy to be robbed
Sun Dec 24, 2006 6:53 AM EST
THREE concepts that are rather difficult for westerners to grasp are: 1. That thievery is your fault, not the thieves'. 2. Being happy that you were just robbed. 3. Doing nothing – except staring – when someone else is in trouble.
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Great explorer's ghost
Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:41 AM EST
HE died alone and childless at home in Stockholm, the picture of the woman he loved, but left behind for his many trips to Asia, at his bedside. I first saw him in 1965 as I drove home from night classes.
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Beer, corn and toilet talk
Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:06 AM EST
THE quickest way to learn some Chinese words is by association. For instance, when most men arrive in China for the first time, they want to be able to order beer. But the word "pijiu" is difficult for them to remember.
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7 dwarfs of Christmas
Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:13 AM EST
LAST week it made perfect sense to see Snow White bidding Santa Claus farewell.
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Waggly tail
Sun Dec 17, 2006 8:22 AM EST
A Chinese friend says not to be so picky about food. But as a kid, I swore to eat only what I wanted as an adult. Didn't know then what China would be serving up.
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Thank heaven
Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:45 AM EST
CONFUCIUS considered that heaven had a will and could be prayed to. I tested this theory at the college this past week and, sure enough, the Chinese people I tried to choke from behind exclaimed, "Wo de tian!" – My heaven!
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Santa belongs to China
Wed Dec 6, 2006 4:14 AM EST
SANTA Claus is at home, busily manufacturing gifts in his Guangdong workshop where I live in China.
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Peace at home
Sun Dec 3, 2006 7:14 PM EST
ONE of the classic stories in Chinese culture is about the never-ending conflict between a man's wife and his mother-in-law. As the saying goes, two women under the roof means no peace in the house.
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Three potent words
Sun Nov 26, 2006 5:17 AM EST
"WHO are you?" new Chinese English teachers were asked at a roundtable for better learning. The answers went like this: "I'm Wang Li. I live in China. I'm an English teacher." "But," the facilitator insisted, "Who are you?"
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Revenge of the Fisher Maiden
Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:55 AM EDT
THE waves wheel in among the boulders, then whisper out. Beneath the bloody lock of hair pasted to her forehead Mei Din ponders her fate. The greedy water grasps for her feet. She is too weak to resist.
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Red panties up
Thu Oct 26, 2006 3:16 AM EDT
ONE of the biggest mysteries in every city I've been to in China has been that single pair of red panties hanging in the window or on the balcony. In some homes they seem to be permanent fixtures.
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Hospital 'about face'
Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:56 AM EDT
UNTIL my recent experiences, I would have had little good to say about Chinese hospitals. However, now I have done a complete about face, at least regarding my treatment by doctors, nurses and other health-care personnel in today's Zhuhai.
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The best thing
Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:21 AM EDT
IN 1949, my granduncle, the controversial Swedish explorer of Asia Sven Anders Hedin, said, "Mao is the best thing that has happened to China in a thousand years."
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OT and holidays
Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:38 AM EDT
CHINESE factories have an image in the West of being sweatshops. While that might have been true ten years ago, almost all the workers I have seen and talked to lately are content.
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It's sknot acceptable
Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:02 AM EDT
AFTER discussing an article that mentioned using a handkerchief in lieu of bathroom tissue, a young woman asked: You didn't put it back in your pocket, did you? See looked at me as if expecting to hear, Of course, I did!
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Big no fish west
Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:32 AM EDT
A LITTLE bit of language is a dangerous thing.
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