Archive for August 18th, 2008

The Chinese Olympics of Food

Monday, August 18th, 2008

If you watch the Olympics on television you will see coverage of the local people and I dare say very, very few of these locals are even remotely as fat as most of our breathren in the West. What is the secret and do the Chinese have …

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Olympic Information Center: links on 16, 17 August

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Beijing Olympics: China lifts security restrictions to appease advertisers - Telegraph. Olympic Marketing Fatigue; Financial Post. Beijing police seize 110 foreign and Chinese Olympic ticket scalpers - People’s Daily Online …

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Chinese Olympic Cheating

Monday, August 18th, 2008

China’s official Xinhua News Agency listed Ms. He’s age as 13 on its website just nine months before the Olympics began. China Daily, the country’s official English-language paper, said on May 23 she was 14. …

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Thoughts On The 2008 Beijing China Olympics Tennis Matches

Monday, August 18th, 2008

During the past week tennis celebrated the 20th anniversary of its return to Olympic Games in Beijing, China as a medal sport, with one of its strongest fields. The China Olympics tennis competition welcomed top ranked players in men’s …

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Framing Chinese Olympics is a bigger window into global values

Monday, August 18th, 2008

We’re more than halfway through the Summer Olympics and all eyes are on China. Amid the pageantry and sports are deeper questions about the role of China in the world. In an interview on DemocracyNow.org, sportswriter Dave Zirin said …

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