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Take a Frozen Vacation to Harbin, China Ice Bars

1/25/08 10:28am by pajamadeen

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Want to get away from it all? Consider a trip to Harbin City in northeastern China, just a few balmy (relatively speaking) hours’ drive south of Siberia. Every winter, the city has an ice festival. Ice bars -- where the bar, chairs, tables and glasses are carved from ice -- are popular, as is the vodka offered there. Be careful not to slip off your chair though, if it starts to melt. Read more at pajamadeen.com. Read more >

Border Fence Folly at Rafah, Gaza

1/24/08 7:19pm by pajamadeen

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Wednesday’s breach of Israeli-built concrete and steel “border fencing” by Hamas militants in Rafah, Gaza, with tens of thousands of Palestinians now streaming into Egypt to buy food, fuel and other supplies they haven’t had access to in months, demonstrates once again the futility of walling people in or walling people out. Desperate people do desperate things, as we theoretically learned from the Berlin Wall debacle. Read more >