Newsweek
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14 Vietnamese women were found and freed from Baby101, a Taiwanese outfit operated outside of the law in Thailand. They were paid to be surrogate mothers (artificial insemination or otherwise), whose future babies would be put up for adoption. Baby, never let me go. Newsweek has a piece about anonymousUS.org, an organization which seeks to organize…
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I still remember Sang. He helped me set up sound equipment on the weekend (my attempt to crowd-source and create an open-air coffee-house for refugees), and attended my class on weekdays. Sang was in that transition camp in Hong Kong, on his way to Norway, his new home. I was feeling sorry for him, an…
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Christopher Shaw, winner of the most recent Power Ball lottery, said he would go to the dentist and then Disney World. (this is a retweet, a year later. Not much has changed, except for Chris’ dentistry). I guess that’s how winning feels: being on top of the world, full of positive forces that lift you…
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If you need to be motivated as I do, watch the Winter Olympics. You will share peak emotions, peak performance and peak mountain spots of Vancouver. Everybody loves a winner, and the winner loves to savor and share that moment . We empathize with their struggle, their trial and triumph. In a word, we self-project.…
Thang Nguyen 555 