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  • "media" is plural

    ''Media'' is the plural form of ''medium'', so ''Are The Media Being Too Mean To China?'' is perfectly correct. Granted, ''media'' is most often used, not to mean a group of communication outlets, but the profession or industry as a single collective whole. But if you're going to be all pedantic and nitpicky, ''are the media...'' is correcter, ...
    Posted to Five-Ring Circus by bdb on August 12, 2008

  • A note on tipping

    The author was absolutely right about the no tipping. Unfortunately, there were always some lao wai with expense accounts being an ass and spoiling the workers with tips. When the bosses and managers at these establishments got a wind of this tipping concept, some started charging a 10% ''Service fee'' on top of your bill. That money IS NOT GOING ...
    Posted to Five-Ring Circus by clevernickname on August 7, 2008

  • Beijing's Olympic Mascots

    As long as the Chinese government trades in murderous infanticide, suppression of freedoms, ideas, and the chosen destiny of individuals, I choose to have nothing to do with the entire fiasco. The Mascots are simply affectations that have little to do with the reality of the oppressive Chinese government. Much of the world boycotted Hitler's ...
    Posted to Five-Ring Circus by johnlem59 on July 25, 2008

  • Meritless

    Slate should be ashamed and this article should be withdrawn. The author rips Torres' training techniques as being unproven and unscientific yet provides very little peer-reviewed scientific evidence to counter it. Instead the author relies on hearsay and ''experts''. I also find it interesting that this author has chosen to ignore perhaps the ...
    Posted to Five-Ring Circus by delmar on July 16, 2008

  • Air in Beijing...

    ...is nasty. I was in Beijing for all of one week last year (in the fall, when the air is supposed to be cleaner than in summer), and when I got home each night, I'd blow my nose and my kleenex would turn black. I had a sinus infection when I finally got on the plane to go home. I'm sure the taste of gritty pollution would be really great as a ...
    Posted to Five-Ring Circus by whitejasminetea on July 10, 2008

  • Olympic pollution

    Appropriate story, but one that already has been done about 100 times in other media. But my principal complaint is the headline: ''The 500-meter wheeze.'' There is no 500-meter event in track and field, swimming, shooting, archery or any other Olympic sport. It's a small point, perhaps, but similar errors of nuance and lack of expertise abound in ...
    Posted to Explainer by Mark McDonald on October 27, 2007