I like the "gotcha" vibe I'm getting with this news of Chinese miners. It's like stories of miners getting trapped, killed, or otherwise maimed is something new.
Should we also wonder why they don't televise conflicts in Congo, Angola, and/or Darfur as they did for Iraq?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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