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Entries from November 2007

Chinese Adoption Blog

November 15th, 2007 · No Comments

The New York Times has a Relative Choices blog that focuses on adoption and the American family. One of their bloggers is Jeff Gammage who writes about the experiences of his two daughters, both of whom were adopted from China. He recently wrote about the Chinese language and culture classes that his daughter [...]

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Tags: China · Family

Chinatown, 1925

November 14th, 2007 · No Comments

TIME Magazine: Tong. Western Union operators in Boston were puzzled, last week, by a number of enigmatic telegrams sent from their station to various parts of the U. S. The messages appeared, at first glance, to be in code, but a closer scrutiny revealed that they were merely lists of names—Chinese names.
The above passage comes [...]

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Tags: History

Chinese History From a Western Perspective

November 14th, 2007 · No Comments

Time: Second Thoughts on the Chairman. Not even Mao was perfect, it turns out. Propped up by two solicitous aides, Ye Jianying, 81, the venerable chairman of the National People’s Congress, tottered up to the rostrum last week to deliver the keynote speech for China’s 30th anniversary celebration.
If you are ever curious about how [...]

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Tags: China · History

FireFox Drop-Down Menus Broken After Leopard Upgrade

November 6th, 2007 · 10 Comments

I upgraded to Mac OS X Leopard last week and have been struggling with various “issues” that have come up. The latest involves Firefox. I’ve already come across two web sites that use drop-down menus; however, the menus don’t drop. Who wants to browse through a menu by hitting the up arrow / [...]

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Tags: Technology