Word: hangings
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...girlfriend dresses nice, so she's my fashion idol. If she really hates something I'm wearing, she'll be very vocal about it. My weight fluctuates, and I'll try to hang on to clothes that probably aren't right for whatever weight I'm at. She'll be very quick to point that...
...Chinese Communist Party, on Beijing time, even though geographically the city should be two hours behind the national capital. Han Chinese make up about a quarter of Kashgar's population, and markers announcing the route of the Olympic flame, which passed through here in June, line the streets. Banners hang that read, "All ethnicities hand in hand welcome the Olympics." This week, however, some locals may have decided they wanted none of Beijing's Games...
...wrong. Ice-core science is all hard work - especially the painstaking analysis of the ice cores back in the lab - but only a certain kind of scientist chooses to spend weeks on an isolated ice cap, and I suspect that kind of scientist is a lot more fun to hang out with than the sort that never leaves their laptops. They're spiritual descendants of the polar explorers who crossed the ice over a century ago with dogs and sleds and little else, who - as Rajenda Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
...Mexico City dais was erected at the Americans' alma mater, San José State University, California - without Norman's figure on the second-place dais, which someone had decided would be a good place to deliver speeches and pose for photos. "If [Smith or Carlos] had said, 'Hang on a second, you're missing Peter,' it wouldn't have happened," Norman says. "They knew about this statue . . . I found it humiliating...
...edge rock club. Its fans say the unassuming club, right between Tsinghua and Peking universities, houses one of the most exciting music scenes in the world, a hothouse for new talent that rivals London's or New York City's. From the crimson walls of the second-story balcony hang 13 portraits that have become the club's hall of fame--local bands like P.K. 14, Joyside, Hedgehog and Carsick Cars. D-22's sophistication and huge variety--one night it featured a performance of classical Chinese opera between sets--trigger memories of the stultifying Beijing of the old days...