Archive for July 2nd, 2003

Live Teleconference From Shanghai and New York

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glasscastle - July 2, 2003 @ 10:44 pm · ESL Links

"Modern Warfare in China:
Fighting Terrorism and Combating SARS
Implications for Investors"


The transformation of U.S. China relations brought about by the War on Terrorism is one of the strange alliances of the new world order. What does it mean when the Cowboy and the Communist align their might against terrorists, splittests, and cultists? And how has the Three Represents of Jiang Zemin fared in its battle with SARS?

More info and registration form

All You Can Read

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glasscastle - July 2, 2003 @ 9:01 pm · ESL Links

Looking for summer reading? Check out allyoucanread.com, a site specializing in world newspaper and magazine sites. The “Global 100 Newspapers” is a ranking of the 100 most active newspaper web sites.

Blog of the Day

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glasscastle - July 2, 2003 @ 2:03 am · ESL Links

The
Reverse Cowgirl’s Blog

(wherein a writer attempts to justify
the enormity of her porn collection)

This is a wild and funny blog. The Reverse Cowgirl is a Los Angeles-based
writer, photographer, comixxx-maker, and artist who covers the subject
of sex, as well as various other topics.

In the Land of the Blind….

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glasscastle - July 2, 2003 @ 1:38 am · ESL Links

Governor Mitt Romney yesterday moved to end ”two-way” bilingual
education programs. I am no fan of what in American education is called
bilingual education: segregated academic instruction in languages other
than English. But this disastrous decision eliminates the few existing
programs that are truly bilingual; mixed groups of native and non-native
speakers
of English learning together in multiple languages simultaneously. These
programs are absolutely necessary if the United States is to remove the
biggest impediment to true globalization of the American dream. Sadly,
the US is the most mono-linguistic and language bigoted country in the
world. Continues…..

To read more of my views on bilingual ed, click here
To
read the news story on Mitt’s call, click here

Purdue Goes Grid in Linking 2,300 Idle Computers

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glasscastle - July 2, 2003 @ 12:14 am · ESL Links

Purdue University is in the process of linking 2,300 computers to
create a computational grid to perform research that previously was
performed on supercomputers. For more information on secure grid solutions, visit: http://www.ud.com; to volunteer your idle compute power, visit: http://www.grid.org