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I will never do this systematically, so I'll keep jotting them down at random. As I repatriate, I notice: - Not as many very fat large Americans as I was expecting. Am I looking in the wrong places? So propagandized into thinking that all of my countrymen are obese that expectations are off? Something...
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Following this item yesterday: 1) Demonstrating the mathematical theorem that TSA+Google Ads = unintended comedy, reader Andrew Hall shows what happened when he clicked on the trailer for the Hilary Swank / Amelia Earhart film: In case you can't read it, the pop-up ad says: " Homeland Security...
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I am no longer based in China, but am not yet actually based anyplace else. So this might be the last dispatch for the next week, and it's on the fly from yet another airport wi-fi site. Sketchy for-the-record remarks: 1) After 60+ hours in America (and on the way out again): Life is so abundant...
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I'm aware of a ton of loose threads to be gathered up (about Air France updates, Obama's speaking style, urban design in China, design in software, boiled frogs, you name it). Soon. But three years in China have now come down to three days; the movers arrive in nine hours; and I've happily...
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I know people who've lived here for decades, for their entire lives, and have not had the full immersion in Beijing-ology that I have recently been exposed to: an air journey from Nanyuan Airport! The authoritative Insider's Guide to Beijing is somewhat dismissive of this travel experience: "Thirteen...
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Two days ago I mentioned the strange results when an Air China flight headed for Beijing was instead diverted to Tianjin. To anyone who receives these posts by email, the results must have seemed even stranger than they were. Because of a glitch in our web set-up, only the first third of the post went...
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Twenty-plus years ago, traveling around China by air was anything but a peace-of-mind experience. The planes were mainly leftover Soviet junkers; the amenities were sparse; the general atmosphere called to mind Indiana Jones. I've done a lot of crisscrossing of China by airlines these past few years...
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Barring some truly startling new development, this will be the final dispatch about the beagle-enhanced war on cheese that Chinese customs and immigration officials are waging at the spiffy new Terminal Three of Beijing's Capital Airport. For the early chronicles of this war, start here . A frequent...
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At last, my interests in (a) innovative small-airplane technology, and (b) the evolution of China's economy, come together in one bit of news. According to Aero-News.Net, in this dispatch , the next owner of the assets, technology, designs, etc of the defunct Eclipse Aviation company could be --...
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- About China and the US cooperating on environmental/climate issues: Yesterday I mentioned this detailed and valuable report from the Asia Society and Pew. It turns out that Brookings has just done something similar. Summary here , with links to PDF versions in both English and Chinese. Transcript of...
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OK, we're already 4% of the way into the new year of 2009. But there are still 10 or 11 days left in the current Chinese Year of the Earthen Rat, before we welcome the auspicious Year of the Golden Ox. So if I hurry I can get through my list of topics worthy of year end wrap-up. (Previously here...
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A Chinese fighter plane! At least, a 1:48 scale model of one, the domestically-produced 歼-10, or J-10 , courtesy of a friend at AVIC, China's giant aerospace company. Click for larger, including a glimpse of the teeny blue-suited model pilot inside: And just down the street, at the main AVIC building...