Where’s the Trauma and the Grief?

These were weird, unnerving interviews, and I don’t pretend to understand what’s going on in the minds of people who have suffered such blows and remained so optimistic. All I can imagine is that the history of this province has given these people a stripped-down, pragmatic mentality: Move on or go crazy. Don’t dwell. Look to the positive. Fix what needs fixing. Work together. Read more

something fun

fun video of the Olympic Mascot

Fun and the Games

Among National ‘House’ Parties, Holland’s Goes for the Revelry Gold.  Read more

After 24 years, Zhong claims another fencing gold for China

BEIJING, Aug 12 (Xinhua) — Zhong Man ignited the home crowd Tuesday evening as all Chinese audience in the Olympic Fencing Hall roared for their second Olympic fencing gold medal in 24 years.

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The footprint firework

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Lin Hao, earthquake survivor, leading the Chinese team in the Olympics (with the help of Yao Ming)

nine-year-old Lin Hao, a survivor of the earthquake in Sichuan.  20 of the 30 classmates in his school perished in the disaster, but after freeing himself he went back into the rubble to find his classmates. Read more  Read more  Read more 

Beijing opens Games with best show on earth

a moving spectacle

Olympic opening ceremonies the best ever

BEIJING – If any future Olympic Games is ever credited with a more awesome, brilliant, inspired, powerful or original opening ceremonies it might have to be because everybody on the planet developed amnesia.

The spectacular show which China produced to welcome the world to the XXIX Olympic Games and welcome themselves to the world was almost certainly the greatest show in the history of the greatest show in sport. Read more

Despite $21M in fines, Red Cross still fails blood handling

The problems, described in more than a dozen publicly available F.D.A. reports — some of which cite hundreds of lapses — include shortcomings in screening donors for possible exposure to diseases; failures to spend enough time swabbing arms before inserting needles; failures to test for syphilis; and failures to discard deficient blood.

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Beijing Summer Olympics Slideshow

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