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I will not tell about all Arab Emirates, but Dubai - is quite a vapid and sad shit. It has surprised me as the most artificial city in the world: the grass in rolls, palm trees in packages, stones - directly from the cement factory. In a combination to a room temperature of air and cloudy days, with which I have been met, all this is similar to one big (very big) hall of a hotel. Smells in Dubai also almost don't exist (if they are not delivered here from India or any Iran in the form of spices and aromas). But spices smells only on one of two coast. I expected to see much more of Muslim exotic, but in Dubai as it turned out, only 18 percent of indigenous population which is safely lost in international crowd. By the way, about inscriptions: on all traffic signs, signboards and other information things inscriptions are duplicated in English. And all of them please with the absolute harmony between East and West: the representative of east culture will read "IKEA" on his/her native language Hebraically, and to him/her will seem, that in Arabian it is written first of all, and the European will not have any doubts that first of all it is written in English, and already then in Arabian.
There is nothing more dangerous then first success. Then you will be pushed to achieve more.
My friend from Paris has told to me by the phone an interesting thing – it's difficult to find a country, except France where so simply to live difficultly and it is so difficult to live simply.
What did he wish to tell it?
And still good education is an ability to quote Samuel Clemens ! :)
And if seriously - good education – it's a complex thing, and that Mark Twain was talking about - is its only small part.
I absolutely agree with Harris and I only can add that the one who has lost and even has not found yet can estimate freedom! May be somebody can still tell something about glory and popularity, but it should be asked former stars of show business.
I'm always amazed with the people that consider tame predators not dangerous. The fact that you consider a bear in the zoo tame doesn't mean that he thinks the same. For him friendly extended hand through the grating first of all is a piece of tasty meat… that was proved by the other case with a panda in the Beijing zoo.
The destiny again was favorable to American astronauts: the shuttle "Discovery" has finished fifteen-day flight, having landed safely in Kennedy space center in Florida.Next mission, STS-122, should go on December, 6 on the "Atlantis" shuttle.It will deliver on ICS the laboratory module "Columbus" - the most significant contribution of the European space agency to construction of station.
Space scale "Russian roulette" proceeds …
What the day today? Everything I'm doing goes wrong. May be the reason is in the moon activity?