Travel
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What used to impress me most about the Chinese was their ability to eat cold stewed vegetables for breakfast, balance a family of four on the handlebars of a bicycle and dance with sharpened swords at the crack of dawn. Pretty intimidating stuff. No wonder former Defense Chief Donald Rumsfeld was rattling his saber at the Chinese. But I've recently returned from China with a new epiphany: The saber rattlers have it all wrong. We have only to fear from the Chinese what we fear in ourselves. |
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A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity spend a weekend in Paris. I went for free because I was chaperoning a school trip, but I would have even been happy to have paid, just for the chance to go. On the trip home I had the occasion to sit next to a lovely man and his adult son who were returning from holiday in Spain. The two remarked that a trip to Paris for only three or four days seemed rather extravagant. It got me thinking, if a trip to Paris for the weekend costs me around $700 or approximately 528.3019 euros, what would, say, a weekend skiing in Vermont have cost me? |
Upcoming events
- How to Survive the Holidays without Gaining Weight or Going Crazy(event)(11 hours)
- Symposium on Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law in Egypt and Iran(event)(13 hours)
- Belly Dancing Club Fusion(event)(18 hours)
- Lecture: Geology Open Night(event)(18 hours)
- Admissions Open House(event)(1 day)
