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The Evolution of a National Burden – Part 1/7
The US was born in debt and every war added to the debt until the Reagan era when deficits exploded.
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Originally posted on InsideTimsHead: As the election drew near, many political and stats junkies (like me) became fans of Nate Silver, aka @fivethirtyeight, the shrewd political number-cruncher and blogger for the New York Times. His way of aggregating the most reliable presidential polls into megapolls, and factoring in those polls’ historical accuracies, was considered by some to be as revolutionary…
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Originally posted on iLook China: There would not be many choices for someone that wanted to move to a socialist country. There are only four in the world: PRC (mainland China), Republic of Cuba, Lao People’s Democratic Republic and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. These countries once had Communist governments but that isn’t entirely true anymore. However, there are 189…
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Growing up with Oranges
My child mind thought: okay, then I’ll knock oranges off the tree to the ground, pick them up and eat them, and I was never caught.
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Originally posted on iLook China: A Guest Post by Richard Burger of The Peking Duck One of the questions I hear the most is whether the Chinese people’s attitude toward sex is conservative or open-minded. And the answer is that it’s complicated. First, there is more than one China: there’s rich China and poor China, urban and rural China, young China and…
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I love hiking. My biggest challenges (for hiking) have been the week long hikes in the High Sierras (including the back country of Yosemite) sometimes reaching higher than 11,000 feet near the John Muir Trail. Heavy backpacks weighing as much as sixty pounds are a burden when climbing for miles with thousands of feet of elevation gain but when the…