July 18, 2008 02:06 by
cgMSNBC looks at the Miss Universe contest held in Vietnam this week: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25653801/
July 18, 2008 01:55 by
cg
Gas prices rising in Japan, too. (Conversion: 200 yen per liter is a little more than US$7 per gallon.)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mdn/all/~3/333446602/20080712p2a00m0na019000c.html
July 18, 2008 01:47 by
cg
"As with so many other things, its invention can be claimed by the Chinese."
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/06/0082063
July 18, 2008 01:42 by
cg
Historian Yoshikuni Igarashi explains how two celebrated Japanese comic
book characters embodied the hopes and fears of Japan's postwar middle
class.
http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=92609
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