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The One About The Guy With Big Balls

They say you can measure a man by the quality of his friends. If that metric is true, I must be doing ok. There are not many people in China (or anywhere, actually) that I would take a bullet for. One guy I would take a bullet for is my good friend Zhu... ...full story at Sinocidal

from Sinocidal on Wed, Sep 05 2007

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17 Jan 07 visit Shanghai to test 'bullet trains' next month  »  Shanghaiist According to Xinhua, these bullet trains are powered by "CRH," which we all know stands for "China Railway Highspeed," and can go 250 km/hour. Six bullet trains will be put into the trial operation next month on the Shanghai-Hanzhou and Shanghai-Nanjing...
08 Jun 09 visit New generation of bullet train to be delivered in 2011  »  People's Daily Reporters learned from Nanchesifang Corp. that a sample of the new generation of bullet train is to be completed by the end of next year. The new bullet train will be produced on large scale after going through a series of tests and will be delivered in...
16 Apr 07 visit High ticket prices put brakes on bullet trains  »  Shanghai Daily THE arrival of China's bullet trains has been accompanied by much fanfare.
16 Apr 07 visit Bullet Train Gets Off to Slow Start  »  china.org.cn Tickets for the country's new bullet train services went on sale at the weekend, but there was nothing high-speed about the public's response.
15 May 07 visit China's New Trains: No. 1 with a bullet  »  Shanghaiist We have discussed Shanghai's new bullet trains before, and last week we actually had a chance to ride one. Condensed review: We like. The obvious advantage, of course, is time. We went to Nanjing, what was once at least a three hour journey (and in some...

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