Timely Snow

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 [...]

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 [...]

 
“In fighting ‘Atypical’ (i.e., Atypical pneumonia, or SARS) , don’t waste any time, Unity is Strength; prevent an epidemic situation”
One of the banners that have gone up on campus this morning.
 

Not much new here, so I’ll catch up on a couple of online pieces of news.

From http://www.crienglish.com/144/2003-4-25/42@11195.htm 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 Illinois, [...]

Ive been in Beijing during three special times over the last 15 years: the tail end of the martial law period in 1989, the period when the U.S. bombed the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia in 1999, the war in Iraq, and the current SARS crisis. (Hmmh reminds me of an old joke in which [...]

One of the books we read this time was “Night” by Elie Wiesel. There is a striking section of that short book where an escapee from a concentration camp came back to their town to tell people what they were in store for. Although there would have been time to escape, no one believed him. Elie’s [...]

The name of this site is take from a picture I took in a Beijing Supermarket, posted at:
http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/~kmiller/Pictures/Instant_poodle.jpg
 
Here are a few days’ worth of reports from the land of SARS:
 
Thursday, April 17
 
Lots of things are going on on the SARS front here. The government continues its policy of reporting very precise but inaccurate information, and [...]