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December 3rd 2007
02-DEC-2007 I didn't set the alarm correctly and everyone in the room/jeep was depending on me. I wake up 20 minutes after we're supposed to be downstairs for breakfast and shout to everyone to wake them up. Crap. I blame it on the alarm being a hunk of junk- hell, I don't want to be hated. It's also 1deg C and I need to jump out of this sleeping bag as fast as possible without dying. Done ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more