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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Brace Yourselves
The sands from the Gobi Desert are coming again: Yellow Dust Storm Expected Tuesday.

Spring in Korea is Yellow Dust season. When I heard of the "Yellow Dust from China" during my first Spring here in 1998, I dismissed it as so much xenophobic/nationalistic nonsense. It seemed like too much like blaming Japan for prostitution. It turned out I was wrong.

And it's nothing new, so we can't blame it on President George W. Bush for refusing to sign the Kyoto accord. As I learned in The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, the great Jesuit missionary/scientist experienced the same thing in the XVIth Century.