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Psst: those pictures are of Beijing, not HK.

Having lived through weather in Taiwan (Taipei) in the summer, which is generally HOTTER than HK by 5-10 degrees F, yes, it's gross, yes, it's muggy...

Well, having 'passion' for one thing isn't enough to get you into a highly competitive school; the application process (graduate, undergraduate, whatever) IS a crapshoot, though you can help stack...

What, precisely, does all that have to do with your niece who went to graduate school at Yale? Anyone who gets a PhD expecting to get rich in academia is nuts. We don't do it for the money - but...

Don't know about ice skating, but in '06 they overhauled the scoring system for gymnastics, so now people get an A score and a B score. The A score is theoretically 'unlimited,' since points are...

I was 'glad' to see this on COTH, because I heard about the story in a weird way and it wasn't clear exactly what had happened. My aunt went in for surgery to have a cancerous lump removed yesterday...

Oh, won a class out of two. Now THAT'S an achievement. :rolleyes:

If her horses are so correct, perhaps she can quit with the photoshop and show them trotting on level ground. :)

Iraq was not a hotbed of sectarian violence and fundamentalist Islam until ... wait for it ... we invaded, mucked up the 'occupation' (I use that word loosely), and are now reaping the benefits of an...

As LM said in her post: "the last picture [jumping picture] is of Silvio's sire, Silvio"

I was last in Shanghai in '05. Unless they have dramatically changed things, licenses were regulated via lottery system (and have been since the '80s), so there was no way for 1,000 cars a day to be...

Now, now, let's give Cochise Co. & Huachuca a little credit - a hell of a lot more attractive than much of Iraq, scenery-wise (and I don't think that lovely 1880s post would last long with IEDs...

The difference is that China's oil is going towards industry and construction, NOT gassing up giant SUVs, trucks, heating/cooling two story great rooms, perpetuating a suburban lifestyle that is...

No, not if your 'on the triangle' resembles SHB classes à la DAD. One doesn't have to be particularly sporty to handle HB horses. ;) Wasn't Drew Taylor showing ponies quite successfully there for...

I don't know, after the KY Derby became ... 'The Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands' (Yum! Brands - now there's class and dignity if I've ever heard it. At least it's not 'The Kentucky Derby...

Well, I do think there's a good bit of imperialism that goes on in the knowledge quarter - we like to naturalize historical categories as if it's always been that way and is 'the' way (I deal with...

Then a woman said, "Speak to us of Joy and Sorrow."

And he answered:

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.

And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your...

Really? Were you there? Have blood samples so we can compare DNA? How exactly can you 'guarantee' it? You can speculate, and that's about it. I say that as a historian - to say you can...

The Turk, IIRC, is only described as having "oriental" features and doesn't the story go that he was captured in Hungary? Entirely possible, as some people claim, that he was some sort of Central...

The pony listed under the USEF horse recording search as "Farnley's Knee High" is a gelding (out of Farnley Magic Wand, apparently?). It looks like the pony BVF was talking about was the sire of her...

ASB Stars, my point is that John Q. Public who cares about spending a night on the slot machines doesn't care about breakdowns, horses, the racing industry, etc. It doesn't matter to them what the...

But the people who go to casinos don't go to watch horse racing, they go to gamble ... at casinos. And the serious bettors I have met are likewise generally not horse people or the fuzzy side of...

You're right, but I am 25 - a year (if that) older than the rider in question. Contradictory? Hardly. Of course we're always learning, but it's a basic fact that I know more about what I'm...

Let's get real here: 24 is NOT a kid. This is directed at this sort of "but [insert person] is just a KID!" thinking in ALL areas of life. Where does being a "kid" stop? 25? 30? 35? Hell, why...

Lest we forget, plenty of racehorses run in ring bits - the trainer I worked for had an extremely impressive collection of bits. The most any of the horses went in was a ring bit, but there were...

Presumably, the PARENTS had to sign the entry form, considering a parent/guardian is required to sign off on any form for 99% of forms I have ever seen. The show management was not simply doing...

WTF does this mean? Considering the absolute plethora of pictures of Nez Perce riding (nice looking, well conformed, not skinny) horses post-1877, I'd love to know how these 'cowboys' traced their...