Off to the Land of 10,000 Lakes
Tomorrow morning I’ll depart this metropolis that seems to be suffocating under a blanket of toxic haze and head to Minnesota, the Land of 10,000...
Quick! Come and Look!
Last month my work took me to the city of Qufu, in Shandong Province. Qufu is famous for being the hometown of Confucius. In an...
Exploding Air-fresheners??
The Xinhua News Agency reported yesterday that the government is calling a halt to the sale of a certain brand of air freshener that has...
Sweating Eyeballs
Summer has arrived in Beijing. Big-time, with high temperatures and high humidity and high heat indexes and layers and layers of smog! It will pretty...
Is That Civilized Behavior?
Guess what, folks. The Olympics are coming to town! Perhaps I’ve mentioned that before. In fact, it’s only 430 days away! The already frentetic preparations...