"China looks to add more playtime to education" by Didi Kirsten Tatlow, International Herald Tribune / January 30, 2011
BEIJING — In China, especially in the north, where winter is deepening its grip and temperatures have been below freezing for weeks....
Related: Too Busy To Read the Boston Globe
That's what I was trying to get away from.
Won't I ever learn?
Many are gripped by acute concern that their children’s life choices are being lowered by a glaring creativity deficit in the traditional education system. And, increasingly, they fear for their children’s psychological well-being in a narrowly defined intellectual atmosphere, where rote memorization is considered learning....
The Chinese know about my college years?
Education is a national obsession in China....
But not in Amerika.
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Time to fly out of China:
"China stealth jet may have roots in US wreck" by Associated Press / January 24, 2011
BRUSSELS — Chinese officials recently unveiled a new, high-tech stealth fighter that could pose a significant threat to American air superiority — and some of its technology, it turns out, may well have come from the United States itself.
Related: Chinese Clippings
Balkan military officials and other analysts said that in all probability the Chinese gleaned some of their technological know-how from an American F-117 Nighthawk that was shot down over Serbia in 1999.
Was that before or after we missiled the Chinese embassy?
Nighthawks were the world’s first stealth fighters, planes that were very hard for radar to detect. But on March 27, 1999, during NATO’s aerial bombing of Serbia in the Kosovo war, a Serbian antiaircraft missile shot one of the Nighthawks down. The pilot ejected and was rescued.
It was the first time one of the much-touted “invisible’’ fighters had ever been hit.
The wreckage was strewn over a wide area of flat farmlands, and civilians collected the parts as souvenirs....
Why do things like that always make me think of Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001?
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