Cage-dwellers in Hong Kong
Check out this disturbing report on people living in cages in Hong Kong.
Links of the Day, October 14
News Heartbreaking: girls sell sex in Hong Kong for shopping money. Some coal plants are dumping waste into drinking water sources. How generous of them … According to the Guttmacher Institute, bans do not reduce the number of abortions. Unsafe abortions kill 70,000 women a year. Health care The Senate Finance Committee passed its bill, …
Links of the Day, August 14
Happy Friday!! News Hong Kong is out of the recession. Human trafficking Forced prostitution on Craigslist? Human trafficking and Islam. A case featuring an American teenage girl is cracked in Florida. Britons can unknowingly contribute to the slave trade. Health care Paul Krugman on the "Republican death trip." Green Cap-and-trade? Or just a tax on …
The blessing of a break
Well, I’ve been back in California for two days now and pretty much over whatever jetlag I may have suffered—maybe those homeopathic no-jetlag pills that Marsha got me really did work! Anyway, I’ve been enjoying the last couple of days. I don’t have anything to do until I go back to work on the 2nd, …
Hong Kong Hello
I’ve been in Hong Kong for a week and a half now. It’s been a blast so far; it’s the first time we’ve had all the family (parents, three sons, two daughters-in-law, four grandchildren) together since 2002, so understandably it’s a little bit exciting. 🙂 These last ten days have been a taster of what …