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		<title>Street Smarts</title>
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There&#8217;s a game foreigners visiting Vietnam like to play, a parlor diversion that doubles as an intellectual and moral exercise. It&#8217;s called &#8220;How Can I Justify Not Giving This Person Any of My Money?&#8221;
A casual listener can hear any number of people engaged in this game at tourist-packed corner cafés in Saigon on a typical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Naturalist&#8217;s Lament</title>
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I have a not-so-secret fondness for a subject that ordinary Americans tend to avoid talking about in public. This is not because they fear getting arrested or anything (although it&#8217;s happened) but because doing so too often results in an argument. One of the nastier results of the so-called culture wars is that what used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Today&#8217;s Menu: Sweet Potato Chips, Vacuum Fried</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The product is manufactured from the modern technology chain; assuring the foods hygiene safety and obtaining high crispness and sponginess but always maintaining natural colour and flavour of fresh ripen fruits and especially the chemical substance is not used in the process of production. The ingredients of the product have many nutritive facts, Vitamin which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spilling the Beans</title>
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It&#8217;s been a while since I mentioned it, but I have another blog - a sister blog to Man and Ultraman called The Daily Edamame. I once described that blog as &#8220;the lima beans to Ultraman&#8217;s corn&#8221; in an effort to make a succotash metaphor about the two, forgetting that a) edamame is made from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communists Sure Know How to Push My Buttons</title>
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China has not been at the top of my &#8220;Must Make Friends With&#8221; list since, well, ever. There&#8217;s something about ruthless authoritarian governments that treat people like mindless, sub-human pets that tends to get my goat. But even I have to admit that last night&#8217;s opening ceremony for the Olympics was pretty flippin&#8217; impressive. On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Permanently Switching Teams Given Official Go-Ahead in Vietnam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From today&#8217;s Viêtnam News, page A-3

Government Issues Sex Change Decree
Hànoi - The Viêt Nam government yesterday issued a decree limiting the legality of sexual reassignment operations. Sexual reassignment surgery is now legal only for people with inborn or behavioral sexual variants. Sexual reassignment is legal for three categories of person: female transvestites, male transvestites and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monsooner or Later&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The wet season in Southeast Asia: obviating the need for daily weather reports since time immemorial.

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		<title>Memento</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I&#8217;m on the subject of motorbikes, I was musing recently that it&#8217;s been nearly a year since I&#8217;ve driven a car. Not in itself an earth-shattering piece of news, I know, but it&#8217;s one of those little things that you catch yourself missing every once in a while, along with such things as convenience [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing in Traffic</title>
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When I arrived in Vietnam eight weeks ago, one of the very first things I noticed was that, after 10 months in Japan, I was once again in a place where cars keep to the right side of the street. Which was a relief, as it had taken me months to get used to cars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missing Blogger Turns up Unexpectedly in Tropical Paradise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings from Bali, Indonesia, where it&#8217;s the dead of winter and 85 degrees.
Any regular reader of this blog could be forgiven for thinking I&#8217;ve given up the ghost - that I&#8217;ve joined the ranks of briefly prolific but ultimately doomed bloggers whose shelf-life was revealed to be that of a jar of pickles. It&#8217;s been more than [...]]]></description>
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