Oct 06, 2008 20:28
1) Grab the nearest book.
2) Open the book to page 56.
3) Find the fifth sentence.
4) post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
"To start with, we completely copied other people's stuff," he said. "In 1994 we made our own engine for the first time. It was not a copy. In 19 we did three of our own engines. The Japanese never imagined that the traditional Chinese manufacturers would develop so quickly. They were quite aloof and condescending, like the Americans before Pearl Harbor."
(China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future - and the Challenge for America, James Jynge)
I still live. The Cowpens presentation is in two days, the field trip in four. Be afraid.