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I’ve been asked to speak at a Wright State University forum; their Honors Institute is having a symposium on Chinese-American relations called “Connecting With China”,  and I’m to talk on “Exploring Issues in Cross-Cultural Adoptions” from 2-4 pm, February 17th.

The event is free to the public, but you have to register in advance to get in due to ( Read more... )

This one is a weird amalgam of the Dayton Daily News article and the Newsweek one.  For one thing, it thinks that we used to live in Dayton; the last time I lived in Dayton was 1977, thirty years ago, long before I married Susan.

• It also notes a 2009 picture of the twins as ‘their first meeting in 2003′, which it isn’t.
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Above is a weird line from another Chinese article on the twins that appeared in the Hong Kong news for Yahoo; from the “(Ming Daily) on December 22, 2009 on Tuesday 05:10″

The article (English translation via Babelfish translation) follows after the cut.  It seems to be a boil-down of the Newsweek article.
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http://www.newsweek.com/id/225492/page/1
The Power of Two:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/225098
Photo gallery of the kids, etc.  The Intro picture is particularly stunning.

This has been in the works since spring.  Newsweek came in with a Pulitzer-award winning photographer who was fresh from covering the White House and Obama and Bush to do the shots ( Read more... )

Child stealing and smuggling rings in China, including a bust in the twins’ home town.

Shanghai Daily _ 上海日报 - En.. (PDF. 28 k - pdf’d version of story)

Speaking of  the seriously rich are still pretty much the seriously rich unless they put their money in the seriously stupid, the Chinese Prime Minister is getting nervous about the safety of US Treasury securities with all of the talk about spending lots of newly printed dollars.  Dude.  There’s no real place to go with this (then what do you ( Read more... )

From The People’s Daily: Jiangmen cops broke a child selling ring.  Details after the cut.

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Today was Mere’s ‘family’ birthday party out at her great-aunt Marlyce’s house in Elgin, and we moved the time up somewhat because of the weather; it was getting slick and messy from sleet and snow.   And also, it looks like Mere is coming down with a cold.  She came home, and moaned and crashed very early.  Susan looked tired too, so it was an ( Read more... )

Panic in various circles over the mistaken notion that ‘Obama’s going to shut down gun shops and confiscate our guns‘.

Various people who were proclaiming Obama’s victory in  OMG terms now doing a ‘never mind’ response.

Dogs are adopting kittens in Jiangmen, Meredith’s home town in China, but you can’t adopt or foster children if you aren’t married ( Read more... )