Timely Snow

<P>Sunday I took a long run downtown as part of my marathon training, although I really wonder if they’re going to be able to have that race. I noticed that all the drugstores we went by had some kind of barrier in front to keep customers out, with staff taking their orders from outside the [...]

<P>Saturday night we biked downtown and watched what may be our last movie in China, “The other side of the bridge”, a very fine movie about an Austrian woman who moved to China in the 1930s to get married and spent the rest of her life in Anhui Province. It was shown by “Cherry Lane [...]

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<P>”In fighting ‘Atypical’ (i.e., Atypical pneumonia, or SARS) , don’t waste any time, Unity is Strength; prevent an epidemic situation”</P>
<P>One of the banners that have gone up on campus this morning. </P>
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<P>Not much new here, so I’ll catch up on a couple of online pieces of news.</P>
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<LI>From <A href=”http://www.crienglish.com/144/2003-4-25/42@11195.htm”>http://www.crienglish.com/144/2003-4-25/42@11195.htm</A>&nbsp;a report that SARS cases will now be entered into a medical database. So what I saw on TV with paper tabulation may have been right. Strange. Educational technology on this campus compares favorably to the University of [...]

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