My weblog will celebrate its second anniversary pretty soon. I know that over the past two years, I managed to entertain and interest at least one reader. I would like to use this opportunity to thank...
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How does one know that it's time to go home?The mind is a wonderful yet mysterious element. It observes, collects data and impressions, analyzes, concludes and takes action. Constructs behaviors. Form...
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My wife, the curator, bought a leather bag. In the bag I found a fancy ticket, stating the following: "The materials used have been selected from the best existing ones. Care and quality of the h...
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For almost two years I have been writing the My China Experience weblog. wrote steadily, continuously, about current affairs, about China, about family and philosophy. I tried to express my viewpoints...
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The free market: The free market is free to go up. Once it goes down, the government kicks in... The market enjoys the freedom of speech, the freedom to vote, the right to bear arms. It doesn't have t...
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I swear (and I can prove it) that I posted this one almost a year ago. Nov 4, 2007 5:29 PMMortgages, Stocks, Real Estate, Jobs and Risksfrom My China Experience by Amiram HayardenyI recently met this ...
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For a few days I've been struggling with myself. The dilemma was whether to write about something that so many are writing about. Asking myself whether or not I can provide a unique viewpoint, added v...
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It's that time of year, as the leaves are about to fall off the trees, the temperatures are cooling down (at least in our hemisphere), the days are getting shorter, and the nights and sleeves get long...
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What a wonderful coincidence. Two of my favorite women in the world have consecutive birthdays... She is my firstborn, she was the prettiest baby in the New York Hospital nursery with no competition. ...
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I know it's her when the phone rings. She opens her mouth, and the words come out of mine. I think of something, and she spells it out. We independently shop and end up selecting the same items. We li...
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In the beginning of September of 2001, on my way to a business trip in California, I made a stop in New York to spend time with my daughters Karen and Tamary. I only stayed for a few days. We took lon...
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The Seven Wonders of the WorldA group of students was asked to list what are, in their minds, the Seven Wonders of the World. Naturally, the results weren't unanimous, but the following sites received...
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Tim is correct. The picture is a mirror image of the original one. In the original one, the "Beijing 2008" was "wrong"...
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So it wasn't men basketball, or phelpsing. But it was absolutely fantastic. We just came back from four full hours at the National Stadium, AKA Bird's Nest. Four hours of running, jumping, walking, th...
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I still remember years ago, during the Olympic Games, spectators would get to see multiple shows. Particularly in the aquatic disciplines, in addition to the athletic show, a fashion show would be run...
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I've been living in Beijing for two and a half years. The Beijing 2008 logo, the rise of the National Stadium (AKA Bird's Nest), the building of Beijing Capital International Airport Terminal 3, the s...
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I'm not a religious person. Far from it in fact. I've gone through phases in my life. There was the phase when I stopped believing altogether. The other was believing that a superior being does in fac...
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Just a few days ago I wrote here that the weather was smoggy, humid and hot. In the last few days, though, there was no evidence of pollution, no cloud in the sky, just infinite blue. The athletes are...
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Watching a magician at work, one develops some kind of strange trust. You know you're being fooled, yet you're confident that the sleeve will produce the queen of spades, and the turtledove will come ...
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Some context. Keren (17) and Tamary (12) are my older daughters who live with their mother in New Jersey. We've been living in two different continents for most of their lives.Frequent phone calls, Sk...
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