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Thursday Jul 10, 2008
A colleague of mine told me about Rankopedia, as the name implies one can literally list and rank anything which of course will be voted by members. I searched some travel related categories and anything which lists Philippines in its ranking. Here are just some of the result: Most Hospitable/Courteous Citizens of the World 1. Canada 2. Switzerland 3. Netherlands 4. United States 5. Ireland 6. Australia 7. Philippines 8. Japan 9. Italy 10. Germany Asian Country With the Most Beautiful Wome
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Wednesday Jul 9, 2008
In Paris the cashiers sit rather than stand. They run your goods over a scanner, tally up the price, and then ask you for exact change. The story they give is that there aren’t enough euros to go round. “The entire EU is short on coins.” And I say, “Really?” because there are plenty of them in Germany. I’m never asked for exact change in Spain or Holland or Italy, so I think the real problem lies with the Parisian casiers, who are, in a word, lazy. When you are Engulfed in Flames is my intr
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Tuesday Jul 8, 2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Vienna, Vienna, Austria Or, “Soccer Fever” (US)/”Football Fever” (UK and other places) When I was planning my trip during the school year, I knew I wanted to spend a little bit longer in Vienna so found an apartment for two weeks. Apparently I was fortunate to find something, since the weekend I arrived was the Final for Euro2008 European Cup. Austria and Switzerland co-hosted the matches with the final game in Vienna. (The Germany-Turkey game had be
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Tuesday Jul 8, 2008
In Part II of this series, I referred to Jerry Lembcke’s book, The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Vietnam, and his examination of the myth that anti-war protesters commonly spat on returning veterans. I quoted from an interview in which he touched on an important aspect of his book, the attempt to make sense of the myth in terms of blame-shifting, similar to that which took place in Germany after WWI, blame-shifting that would, eventually lead to the rise of the Third Reich. In
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Tuesday Jul 8, 2008
Ignore God: Decrease Your Birth Rates I read a very interesting article yesterday in the New York Times on the topic of the shrinking birth rate in Europe over the past few decades. The article outlines the demographic danger facing Europe with the high likelihood that several countries (Italy, Spain and Germany among others) will see their native populations decrease by up to 40% by 2050. According to the article, the replacement birth rate necessary to maintain an equal population size from
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