What's in the News

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Re: What's in the News
« Reply #780 on: November 13, 2008, 10:05:54 AM »
All in all, milk's another brick in the wall.   ahahahahah

China wants to make bricks from toxic milk: report
Tue Nov 11, 2:42 pm ET
BEIJING (AFP) – A south China city is considering using milk at the centre of a poisoned food scandal to make bricks as a cheap and clean way of disposing of the tainted products, state media reported Tuesday.



This is better than pouring in the river where it would get into city water supplies and into food chain via fin and shell fish. I would think there would be little uptake into fruits and vegetables from soil but better safe than sorry.  Then again, is there so much of it per brick that one would need melamine containment just as we have asbestos containment when demolishing or renovating buildings in the future? Does the Middle Kingdom practice asbestos containment?

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Re: What's in the News
« Reply #781 on: November 13, 2008, 01:21:03 PM »
M'kay me, now i'm not going to be able to eat bricks.

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Re: What's in the News
« Reply #782 on: November 13, 2008, 09:00:41 PM »
UK unis are under pressure to keep the foreign students - even if they are plagiarising, cheating and can't speak English.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7610576.stm


But we could also possibly see some retaliation for the expulsion of these students - will teacher here with fake quals be tossed out??

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/7722943.stm

Re: What's in the News
« Reply #783 on: November 14, 2008, 01:24:28 AM »
Thanks, LE, for the links to a good, thought-provoking read.

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Re: What's in the News
« Reply #784 on: November 14, 2008, 06:30:32 AM »
UK unis are under pressure to keep the foreign students - even if they are plagiarising, cheating and can't speak English.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7610576.stm


But we could also possibly see some retaliation for the expulsion of these students - will teacher here with fake quals be tossed out??

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/7722943.stm

Our fall 2009 graduate application season is about to get underway. We start in earnest second week in January. These articles give cause for thought, reflection on the GRE and TOEFL scandal in SE Asia from a few years back.  Given the paranoia of one of the new and anal-retentive faculty members on our admissions committee I'd be hesitant to let him see these but then again, I like to spin him up a bit.

Oh well, another season of comparing the personal statement to the email and deciding who wrote what. It's all in the job.

Thanks for the good reads LE.

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Re: What's in the News
« Reply #785 on: November 14, 2008, 08:34:29 PM »
Who's in Nanning!! Nobody?? There's a new hotel just opened there......
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-11/07/content_7184564.htm
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Re: What's in the News
« Reply #786 on: November 15, 2008, 08:02:01 AM »
Who's in Nanning!! Nobody?? There's a new hotel just opened there......
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-11/07/content_7184564.htm


"... the owner is a little worried the hotel might be perceived as a brothel."
You think?!?
Ah the joys of the "No tell hotel!" or is that "No tale hotel?" Guess that depends upon if there is a tale to tell about....no, won't go there.

Re: What's in the News
« Reply #787 on: November 15, 2008, 09:29:01 AM »

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Re: What's in the News
« Reply #788 on: November 16, 2008, 03:29:38 AM »
Not only China has product problems
http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/johnsonjohnson11_08.html

It's not who has problems. There can be the occasional manufacturing flaw and even sabbotage. It's how the companies and governments deal with it that is different. A problem found and/or reported and product was immediately recalled, not hidden until after the Christmas sales or after the American Football Superbowl, if you get the analogy. Big difference.

The difference too is in the regulation imposed and fines levied. But vigilance is required because greed exists everywhere and there are those who would cheat any and all they can ala ENRON and even the current Banking crisis. Half million dollar Christmas bonuses indeed!! There should be jail time.

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Re: What's in the News
« Reply #789 on: November 16, 2008, 11:30:52 AM »
Hardly China scale. Speaking of China and the bricks, can we use the melamine bricks to pelt the Sanlu, etc. douche bags? That would be justice.
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Re: What's in the News
« Reply #790 on: November 16, 2008, 03:58:40 PM »
Hardly China scale. Speaking of China and the bricks, can we use the melamine bricks to pelt the Sanlu, etc. douche bags? That would be justice.

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I think we need to build a catapult and buy some of those bricks.
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Re: What's in the News
« Reply #791 on: November 16, 2008, 05:29:59 PM »
An extract from "Smart money" in the Business section of Brisbane's "The Sunday Mail"
.... Further concern centres on a slowdown in China where many projects were shut down during the Olympics period. The effect is showing up in recent economic data. The country recently announced an Aus$800 billion-plus economic stimulus package,which will kick start its return to high consumption of commodities. China will have 700 million people urbanising in the next 30 years, so this is no short-term phenomenon.......

Re: What's in the News
« Reply #792 on: November 16, 2008, 06:10:03 PM »
OOPS!

At least one person died and 16 were missing after the collapse of a partially built subway tunnel Saturday in eastern China, state media reported.

A 20-metre-wide section of road over the construction site gave way, trapping workers below, a local official in the city of Hangzhou said.

Nineteen people were hurt and taken to hospital, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

The cave-in created a huge crater in which more than 10 vehicles plunged, the local official said.

Xinhua said about 2,000 rescuers were struggling to pump water out of the tunnel and search for those who remained trapped.
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Re: What's in the News
« Reply #793 on: November 18, 2008, 05:36:04 PM »
One of my favorite words is officially a word. "Meh" has been entered into the dictionary. It's time to start teaching it to our students.

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Re: What's in the News
« Reply #794 on: November 18, 2008, 08:04:30 PM »
Meh.
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