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News
from Nebraska:
Sure,
it took some chutzpah to attend a music
festival with 70,000 very large, very drunk country music fans,
more than a few of whom hoisted Confederate flags at their campsites.
And yes, it took some guts to face, day after day, night after night,
that putrid, fly-infested hole in the ground referred to by Sisi
villagers as a "toilet."
But in those cases and most others over the last six months,
I did what anyone in my situation would do - nothing better, nothing
braver. On
the very last day of my very last mission, I did something that
took bona fide, medal-of-honor courage: I ate a foldini.
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Election
Epilogue:
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XIAN, China, Oct. 26 – I have, inadvertently, discovered how to torment Chinese schoolchildren: Ask them to say, "Courtney Thorne-Smith has thin thighs." That was
the toughest of the tongue-twisters I tried on my junior and senior
high school classes this week. After last week’s failed attempts
to engage the students in conversation, I concluded that pronunciation
drills would be a more productive use of time. Native Chinese speakers
have trouble with the "th" sounds — "that"
comes out "zat" and "think" comes out "sink"
— so I decided to spend a few days focusing on those sounds
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Part 4 and the Epilogue
are now posted. Read about the surprising final days at the chimp
lab, including Suzanne's data-collection screw-up, her sad rift
with Colin and the bewildering retaliatory tactics employed by a
mystery person at CWU...(click
to continue)
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PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 10 –You may be wondering why I chose to spend a week volunteering for California State Senator Adam Schiff, a Democratic Congressional candidate who is not running for office in my district. I can assure
you that it wasn’t out of a personal affinity for politicians.
And here, I am not referring to any arrogant Texas governors or
hypocritical leaders of the free world. No, I am referring to the
fact that one of my top 10 worst blind dates of all time was with
a politician....
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Papua
New Guinea:
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 29 - I don't think you can fully appreciate how it feels to be useless until one of the tires on your rented Daewoo Leganza goes flat, and the only person able to change it is a man in a wheelchair who must slide down onto the gravel to get the job done, while you stand by and tie your shoelace... (click to continue)
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Why
M:I? Blasts
From the Past
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LINCOLN,
Neb., Jan. 20
PASADENA,
Calif., Nov. 8 – Not that my usefulness was ever in doubt,
but election night brought great news: Adam Schiff beat incumbent
James Rogan by a huge margin, 52.7 percent to 43.9 percent, in California’s
27th Congressional District...
Now
posted: Suzanne's
seven-part series on her attempt to build a house in Papua New Guinea
with Habitat for Humanity. It's all there - the hunt for emergency
underwear, the vomit-inducing boat ride, the menacing toilet, Suzanne's
own personal battles with a hammer and saw, her extraordinary 16
hours in Australia. And much, much more! 
