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Fun at the Fair. An American Tradition
Around this time of year us "American" parents are plagued involved with their children's Science Fair. The idea is that the children pick a science-based topic and then put together a presentation, demonstration, or experiement to share with everyone else on the planet at school. My teens both did it and their projects ran the gamut from fingerprints, and rainbows, to how a violin works. At our school it is completely voluntary, and indeed, some kids don't participate. They don't get "extra...
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St. Patrick's Week in Cork City
As an American, I’ve been warned that Saint Patrick’s Day in Cork isn’t as grand as in New York, Chicago, Boston, or even Dublin, but I have to think they’re underselling it. Cork City has so much to offer in the week around the most famous and beloved Irish holiday on March 17th. Here are [...]
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Some last words ? Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Jump to the full entry & travel map Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesWell, I'm back. You've all read my entries as I visited each city, and on some occasions multiple entries from some cities when I had significant experiences. Now that I'm home people keep asking me, "Was it everything you'd hoped'" Other than not being able to afford a few side trips I have absolutely NO regrets about any way that I spent my trip. I did...
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Me, forget an appointment' Riggghhhhhhhtttttt
Today I had another appointment with the MFM/OB/ Perinatologist dude. He asked how my anatomy scan went to which I replied, ?I'm having it today.? To which he asked "when'", and I said, ?ugh now'.It turns out that my ?anatomy scan' was scheduled for last week and in a different department with a different doctor, but nobody bothered to tell me. I thought that my doctor was doing the scan, today, at the appointment that was written down in my appointment book and on my calendar at home. After a...
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On Multiculti Marriage
Bridal hand mehndi (natural tones)Originally uploaded by madaboutasiaOne of my closest childhood friends was a Hindi girl whose parents had often hinted that she marry this particular Indian gynecologist or that particular Indian internist. "He comes from a good family," they'd tell her. But my friend, like most of us first generation Americans, resisted the custom of her parents' homeland. She travelled to Cuba, went to med school and ended up becoming a doctor all by herself, thank you very...
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Glasses
So, finally I got glasses. Might as well. Need them for work, knitting, and French health care covered the eye doctor visit and over 500? worth of glasses...so I was all set.As with any situation where I have to talk/negotiate/ask questions/ask for advice from a French person, I was aprehensive about going to the glasses store. French people are obsessed with crazy glasses. Classic style means nothing here. I walk in slowly... wanting some time to look around. I get jumped on by a women wearing...
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Trial of American puts spotlight on the business of ?state secrets' in China
BEIJING – Officially, the trial of American geologist Xue Feng is about state secrets. He’s accused of exporting sensitive information abroad for helping his Colorado-based employer buy a database about China’s oil industry. But Xue’s attorneys say Chinese authorities pursuing the case have another motivation: commercial competition. When Xue bought the surveys and maps for use in his company’s research reports, the information was openly available. It was only...
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Still Sick
Originally, I went to the doctor on Monday, but he had me come back on Friday. Friday, he was not there, but his medical student was. She told me to return yesterday to see the 'real' doctor again. When I went in, he decided to send me for a chest X-ray at the hospital. I knew where it was, but was not thrilled. It is a maze of confusion with an interpreter, but going it alone is beyond intimidating.I walked there, hoping the fresh air would do me good, but the trolley bus would only take me...
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It's here - for the time being, anyway.
Spring.Technically not until March 20, 1:32pm does the March equinox occur but with the abundant sunshine we're experiencing in Boston there's proof that it's dropping by for a while.I've spotted these snowbells, snowdrops, Galanthus nivalis aplenty on my daily runs -small, little harbingers that they are.(from flickr)(from flickr)(from flickr)(from flickr)(from flickr)
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Avatar: A Film Review
Well, we finally succumbed to the hype and went to see Avatar. A friend had told us she had heard it was "anti-American." No worries on that score. I see it as profoundly American in its depiction of the perennial battle within the American soul between the individual and the collective vision, between self-interest and idealism, between the avid pursuit of material gain and ecstatic transcendentalism. If there are, on the one side, the abject creatures of American capitalism, the other...
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