I have, however, recently stumbled across an interesting, and terribly disheartening trend that has appeared on various blogs like Wonkette, the Conjecturer etc. Take a look...
A blogger went into the US and international editions pictured above and this is what they found:The international editions are filled with sobering stories about species depletion due to global warming, and a disturbing story suggesting the U.S. provoked North Korea into breaking the decnuclearization pact in 2005. The U.S. edition has stories like “Parties: How To Have Fun,” “Rock Music: Secrets of Shredding,” and praying to dead relatives.
Does this make anyone else feel desperately unhappy?
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Another article you may have missed about your home state:
The South Carolina Public Safety Department reported in January that 122 pedestrians were killed on the state's roads in 2006, but "almost one-third," according to an Associated Press analysis, weren't actually "pedestrians," but people "lying illegally in (the) road." [WCNC-TV (Charlotte, N.C.)-AP, 1-1-07]
And from your country of origin
According to a Beijing Youth Daily report distributed by Reuters news service in February, an unidentified Chinese businessman posted an online job offer for a "substitute" mistress. That is, in order to save his marriage, he had agreed to allow his wife to beat up his mistress and thus needed a stand-in to absorb the whipping, to spare the real mistress. He offered the equivalent of about $400 per 10 minutes of pain. [Reuters, 2-26-07]
S.J.
And from your island of origin:
A man leaped into a lion’s den at the Taipei Zoo on Wednesday, November 3, 2004 to try to convert the king of beasts to Christianity, but was bitten in the leg for his efforts. “Jesus will save you!” shouted the 46-year-old man at two African lions lounging under a tree a few meters away. “Come bite me!” he said with both hands raised, television footage showed. One of the lions, a large male with a shaggy mane, bit the man in his right leg before zoo workers drove it off with water hoses and tranquilizer guns. Newspapers said that the lions had been fed earlier in the day, otherwise the man might have been more seriously hurt ... or worse.
Wow, Chinese people
in the last series,... what did latin america put on the cover?
j
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