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Maurice Sendak RIP. The man seemed to always speak his mind and yes, the movie adaptation by Spike Jonze is great. [youtube]xXAjkLUv7dY[/youtube]
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The first Chinese American in the NFL is Ed Wang and he’s now a Raider. He’s an offensive lineman at 6’5″ 321 pounds. He was a fifth round draft choice who was injured last season and hopefully will get some playing time. His parents are from China! (Yahoo – Ed Wang)
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Japan is now Nuclear reactor free. For how long? How will they compensate? It’s going to cost, but if there’s a solution, it’ll be something worthy of many Nobel Prizes. The test will be the summer when people need to turn on the AC in a humid Japan. The ideal is that they stay this way, but the reality, they’re going to have to turn one back on. (CNN – Nuclear Free)
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Pills containing the skin of aborted fetuses and and dead babies were attempted to be smuggled into South Korea. It’s made in Northern China and is a “performance enhancing drug” that’s also dangerous. It’s like a Viagra that’s summoning the youth of China into a penis. Super Bacteria? Yes, it might be there too. (Foxnews – Pills)
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The former “Darkie” name is gone and the smiling minstrel face is replaced with a man of an uncertain race in a top hat, but the toothpaste is still literally called “black people” (黑人, pronounced “hei ren” in Mandarin). Black-people toothpaste is still sold in many Asian countries (we found this our first night in Taipei at a 7-11 two weeks ago). The parent company, Hawley & Hazel Group, is 50%-owned by Colgate-Palmolive. On their site, Colgate says that while they replaced the “Darkie” English name with “Darlie” in 1990, they kept the “hei ren” characters because “Hawley & Hazel’s research shows that Chinese consumers perceive the ‘Hei ren’ toothpaste brand to be trustworthy, international and modern.” If that’s the case, then how come there are zero black people on Darlie’s web site? C’mon, Colgate-Palmolive and Hawley & Hazel people!
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