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Sunday, August 17, 2008

Beijing Journal

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John spent the summer in Beijing, China, studying at Tsinghua University, seeing the sites, and attending the Olympics (as seen on NBC...
Saturday, August 16, 2008

Lesotho Log

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Scott spent July in southern Africa, in the country of Lesotho. July 15, 2008 "Everything is going very well here! Lesotho is awesom...
Thursday, December 20, 2007

Celebratory gunshots

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"This holiday season, Dallas residents are again reminded about the tragedies that can result by recklessly firing weapons into the air...
Thursday, August 2, 2007

Our Recognized School District

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The Richardson Independent School District achieved a rating of "Recognized" in the annual accountability ratings for Texas school...
Sunday, June 10, 2007

Great Lakes Tour

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Niagara-on-the-Lake ( see more ) On the road for three thousand, three hundred miles in eight days! No two nights in the same place. That ...
Saturday, May 12, 2007

The mystery of the 5-cent Coca-Cola

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The price of the first serving of Coca-Cola was 5 cents in 1886, about a dollar in today's money. Coke no longer sells for a nickel, and...
Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Frontier counties

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The 2000 census found more "frontier counties" - that is, counties with six or fewer people per square mile - in Kansas now than i...
Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Black gold

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"Even with high oil prices, Saudi Arabia's annual per capita income, at $14,000, is only about half that of oil-free Israel." ...
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Talk is cheap

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Sending data on the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable cost $10 a word -- in 1866. Wired, February, 2007
Sunday, January 7, 2007

Harper's Index

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83: Annual budget of Miami's police department, expressed as a percentage of the production cost of the film Miami Vice. Harper's M...
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