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What I’m Reading

April 11, 2010

in Aviation, China, International Affairs, Reading, Thailand, What I'm

What I’ve been reading this past week (er, weekend actually.) China: Five Myths About China’s Economy – Washington Post 11 April 2010 – HT to @NiuB Stability Preservation in China – ChinaGeeks 10 April 2010 – HT to @GraniteStudio The World: Unrest in Thailand – The Big Picture from The Boston Globe 9 April 2010 [...]

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August 6, 2009

in Aviation, China, Health, Randomness, What I'm

reading/thinking about today: Here’s an update on the company dinner last night: two words – warm beer. Enough said. In other randomness: The pneumonic plague has struck China, and as alarming as that might seem, I could barely be bothered to keep up with the news. I know it is isolated to some village in [...]

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March 31, 2009

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Reading this week: Tibet as ‘Hell on Earth’ by Elliot Sperling in the Far Eastern Economic Review Was Tibet “hell on earth” before the Chinese “emancipated the serfs” in 1959?Is it “hell on earth” today, as the Dalai Lama believes? Sperling, the director of the Tibetan Studies program at Indiana University’s department of Central Eurasia [...]

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March 24, 2009

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Reading today: Rethinking the American Dream by David Kamp in the April Vanity Fair “…that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to his ability or achievement.” Looking at it that way, the American Dream still exists, as it always will. [...]

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A New Take on the Bookmobile

October 21, 2008

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I can’t tell you how much I love this story – a Colombian man and his traveling library – The Biblioburro. The power of knowledge and books is an amazing thing. I worry we might be forgetting that in America. I cringe a little at the idea of Joe Six Pack, to be honest. Since [...]

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January 28, 2008

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reading right now (And what I think you should read, too!) Has AT&T Lost Its Mind? by Tim Wu – So I hear AT&T wants to filter the Internet. Bad idea, here’s why. Last time I checked, we were living in 2008 not 1984. Waving Good-bye to Hegemony by Parag Khanna – just what will [...]

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September 8, 2007

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Reading: Michel Foucault’s The Birth of the Clinic For one of my medical library classes. This is some tough reading. Has anyone out there read Foucault? He was a French philosopher writing in the 1970s to early 80s. I am going to be reading this one a few times. Laurie Garrett’s The Coming Plague Possibly [...]

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July 26, 2007

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Reading: Richard Preston’s The Demon in the Freezer – Amazon Link Smallpox and anthrax, as interpreted by the author who brought us the Ebola blood-fest that was The Hot Zone. If you are a fan of infectious disease reading (and who isn’t?) this is a great choice. Preston knows how to turn CDC and USAMRID [...]

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What I’m Reading/Watching/Listening To…

May 25, 2007

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With a nod to the Foreign Policy Blog Passport’s What We’re Reading, here is what I am reading/watching & listening to now: (Check out Passport’s reading lists for some GREAT reading!) Reading: “The Ambler Warning” by Robert Ludlum – Because I love spy novels! Technically, I’m listening to this one as I have it as [...]

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