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Year End 2017; Conducting Your Personal Review

As 2017 comes to a quick close, I am sure many of you are consumed with the typical December activities; finishing out the semester, finalizing your year-end reporting, making preparations for the trip home… and then there’s the holiday...

Working Hard to Stay Simple

Albert Einstein is quoted as saying, “The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple”. If Albert were alive with us today, how do think he would simplify this complex world in which we find ourselves?...

Who Do You Serve?

Having clarity or confusion in answering this simple question will either drive all the right behaviour or leave you waffling in executing your daily mission in life. Some of you may remember the lyrics of an...

How Pure is Your Environment?

I find living in China causes me to be acutely aware of so many things I never thought I had to worry about back home. However, as I became more aware of the need for pure air, I began...

Persevering through the Heat

Each year about this time, residents of Nanjing love to remind each other of the foreboding heat that is about to descend upon the city. You will often hear the comment, “You know, Nanjing is one of the four...

What Do You Expect?

The great English poet, Alexander Pope once said, “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”  No expectations; no disappointment! Wouldn’t that be a fantastic life! However, the reality for most us...

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China’s Brain Banks Need Donors as Human Tissue Reveals Dementia Clues

China’s human brain banks are still struggling to attract donors more than a decade after the first facilities opened,...

Car-Bed Campers Turn Hotel Car Parks into Free Showers and Toilets

Chinese road trippers are swapping hotel rooms for the back seats of their own cars, folding them flat into...

China’s Metro Map Grows by Almost 65km Ahead of National Day

China’s National Day holiday has arrived with three cities adding new metro links. Nanjing, Qingdao and Changchun have opened...

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