For the past couple of days I have been tinkering with ways to utilize the new World Global wiki. I also was happy to hear back from the people at Wetpaint--they took down the advertisements from the site.
I did, however, get a chance to to work on the essay rubrics I will use with my Global classes this year. They can be accessed by clicking the Writing and Deliberation Instruction link over in the sidebar. Hope someone finds them useful
Now, to keep today's update from being entirely mundane, did you know that...
Mao offered women to US, he told Kissinger in 1973 all their babies caused problems for China
WASHINGTON: Amid a discussion of trade in 1973, Chairman Mao Zedong made what Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger called a novel proposition: sending tens of thousands, even 10 million, Chinese women to the United States.
"You know, China is a very poor country," Mao said, according to a document released by the State Department's historian office. "We don't have much. What we have in excess is women. So if you want them we can give a few of those to you, some tens of thousands."
A few minutes later, Mao circled back to the offer. "Do you want our Chinese women?" he asked. "We can give you 10 million."
After Kissinger noted Mao was "improving his offer," the chairman said, "We have too many women. ... They give birth to children, and our children are too many."
"It is such a novel proposition," Kissinger replied in his discussion with Mao in Beijing. "We will have to study it."
From the International Herald Tribune
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Posted by: essay writing | August 05, 2009 at 11:20 PM