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...hard-pressed to find Ji'an in any English-language guidebook on China. Nestled deep in the mountains dividing China and North Korea, the capital of the ancient Koguryo kingdom?that stretched from Siberia to Seoul in its 5th century heyday?has always been insular. Even today, reaching this historical jewel of China's Jilin province is no easy task. From Beijing it means an overnight train to the Manchurian sprawl of Shenyang, then another eastward to the industrial city of Tonghua, followed by a gut-churning hour in a taxi via the hairpin turns and dense forests...
...everyone believes—as I do deep in my gut—that one or more of New York’s suspension bridges will be the next target of the forces of terror the nation finds itself battling. Consequently, this midday walk—on July 5th, no less, during one of the government’s vague terror warnings—seems almost stupidly risky. It’s like streaking through midtown naked. Cheap thrills in New York...
Notions of a divinely choreographed end to history are almost as old as Western faith. They appear first in the Jewish Bible's books of Isaiah and Ezekiel. The books were edited in the 5th and 6th centuries B.C., and secular scholars find an intimate connection between their content and the horrors Jews faced at the time. In 586 B.C., after a brutal siege, the kingdom of Babylon conquered Israel and forced its elite into exile. The prophets defiantly proclaimed the opposite: the establishment over all nations of a Jewish kingdom under a divinely anointed Messiah...
...FINISH 5th at Ivy meet (women), 4th at Ivy meet...
...RESULTS 5th at Cross Country Heps, 4th at Indoor Heps, 3rd at Outdoor Heps