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ADVERTISEMENT Now, I love Chinese food. I mean, who doesn’t? Weird people who don’t like lots of soy sauce and yummy carbs like rice and rice noodles? But what have the Chinese given to us, really? Fortune cookies? Jokes about children working in sweatshops? I’d like to think that they have accomplished more than that [...]
Posted by Shannon Harris on Friday, August 10, 2012 at 12:01 am
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As if death was not morbid enough, many people have taken last rites to a whole new level of dreadfulness. In some cultures disposing of the corpse might mean anything from eating it up to dancing with it. Those of you who think burial and cremation are the only death rituals; please prepare yourself before [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 8:26 am
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