New electric bicycles on display

Baby, it's coal outside

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November 9th 2010
In between teaching classes, the Impossibly Adorable Roommates (IARs) and I often travel to the nearby public schools to hand out fliers touting our private English school. We try to time our arrival around lunchtime. We wait outside the gates (alongside the students' parents) until the students come out for lunch. The parents then give their kids a ride home for lunch, but before they do, we hand ... 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