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By Bal(t)imoron, 5 months and 5 days ago

Burning Thin Air

Minding my Chinese readers, there is a certain symbolic "WOW"-ness related to the lighting of a torch on Mt. Everest. I just wish it weren't an Olympic torch. And, I hope those torch-bearers .

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