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My colleague was downstairs at the Olympic souvenir stand in the mall when she spotted this notebook and bookmark set featuring Jing Jing, one of the five ''Fuwa'' mascots of the Beijing Olympics. Shooting is an Olympic sport (and several of the Olympic sports have military antecedents), so this makes sense from a certain perspective. ...

There is no such thing as a dull year in China. 2008 is well underway and already looks like another whopper. We're only a month in and we've already had the biggest storms in half a century. The Olympics, the mother of all China events, is now a scant seven months off. God only knows what will happen in between. But before we get too far into ...

When Imagethief read the words ''model truss'' in the headline of an article on China.org.cn, he had an immediate flashback to the hernia repair operation he had nine or ten years ago. In fact, I never needed a truss (it wasn't that bad a hernia), but I do have a Dacron patch in my abdomen to this day. Or so they tell me. It turned out to have ...