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		<title>East vs. West</title>
		<link>http://srilankayear.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/east-vs-west/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stereotypes are terrible and the plural of anecdote is not data. Individuals from any culture should be judged as individuals. But there are cultural differences in attitudes and behaviors. I give below two anecdotes that I think illustrate some broad differences between East and West. Anecdote 1: A day or so after our arrival  in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=srilankayear.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3457726&amp;post=837&amp;subd=srilankayear&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan: Academic Visits</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan (USEFP) made good use of my ten days in  Pakistan. I have already mentioned my talk given at the Fulbright Alumni conference on my work establishing a computational physics course at Peradenyia. In the days following the conference, arrangements were made for me to visit Pakistan&#8217;s top university, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=srilankayear.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3457726&amp;post=825&amp;subd=srilankayear&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Their Eyes Were Watching God</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading another book that Kris handed down to me: Zora Neale Hurston&#8217;s Their Eyes Were Watching God. Different books hit you in different ways, some with their plots, some with their characters, some with their settings. Hurston&#8217;s book grabs you with an astonishing use of language itself. Hurston tells the life story [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=srilankayear.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3457726&amp;post=812&amp;subd=srilankayear&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Trip to Yala National Park</title>
		<link>http://srilankayear.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/our-trip-to-yala-national-park/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My sister Shannon has arrived to share our trip back to the US. Partly in honor of her and partly to get in a trip to parts of Sri Lanka we had not had a chance to see, we took a trip to Yala National Park, on the south east coast of Sri Lanka. We [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=srilankayear.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3457726&amp;post=814&amp;subd=srilankayear&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>By popular demand! Kris in sari!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague, Professor Careem, just sent us the only pictures extent of Kris in her sari. The occasion was the homecoming following the marriage of Professor Careem&#8217;s son that I wrote about in December. Without further ado:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=srilankayear.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3457726&amp;post=809&amp;subd=srilankayear&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mini book reviews</title>
		<link>http://srilankayear.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/mini-book-reviews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is amazing how many more books you can read if you do not have access to television. And when you have a wife like Kris who recommends really great (not necessarily &#8220;the Great&#8221;) books, reading is so much more interesting and satisfying than television. We do have a television here with a satellite dish [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=srilankayear.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3457726&amp;post=802&amp;subd=srilankayear&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Been too long in Asia?</title>
		<link>http://srilankayear.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/been-too-long-in-asia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Island newspaper here is available online and is one of two Sri Lankan newspapers I check pretty much on a daily basis. The Island is also available on local newsstands where its relative popularity (at least among English speakers) compared to the government organ The Daily News is demonstrated every day by the fact [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=srilankayear.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3457726&amp;post=799&amp;subd=srilankayear&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What a picture I must have made&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK. Picture this if you can: It is 8:30PM, pitch dark. I am standing at the open gate of a neighbor&#8217;s compound.  I am naked except for a  (I must say,  ravishing), emerald green, tie-dye cotton sarong wrapped around my waist and Birkenstocks on my feet. The vast whiteness of my belly is exposed to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=srilankayear.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3457726&amp;post=787&amp;subd=srilankayear&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan: Rugs!</title>
		<link>http://srilankayear.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/pakistan-rugs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 22:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kris and I have a kind of deal with each other when we travel.  Rather than buy a bunch of trinkets as souvenirs, we give each other permission to seek out one really nice souvenir that we will treasure forever. I decided that I wanted to buy a significant gem. A real &#8220;rock.&#8221; Something mined [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=srilankayear.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3457726&amp;post=776&amp;subd=srilankayear&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan: Day 11680, Sunday</title>
		<link>http://srilankayear.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/pakistan_day_wo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 10:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have got to to get out of using my sleep cycle as a organizing principle of this blog. Who cares how much sleep I am getting or how long I lie awake at night before I fall asleep? So, the title of this post comes from a great video piece in The Onion. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=srilankayear.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3457726&amp;post=765&amp;subd=srilankayear&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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