10/07/03 — Encounters in the street
Did I mention it was hot here? Try 34 degrees at 8.30pm... I've discovered that being randomly helpful to lost-looking English-speakers is not only good for the karma, it's often good for the intellect and the pocket. This last lot not only bought me dinner (mostly I've been getting a drink here and there out of it) but they included a guy giving a lecture on biodiversity at the uni and Nicholas Ashford, PhD, who apparently drafted the first regulations on biotechnology for the Reagan Administration. Unfortunately, he's leaving tomorrow so I can't get any more amazing stories about how he was stunned when they approached him because he'd been an outspoken critic of their policies regarding formaldehyde in furniture. I have his card though. I think I got some points with the other guy (Richard Wetzler from the global environment studies program at Brown University) for having heard of cladistic analysis, so thanks, Christina! |
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| ^^ The streets were covered for a festival I'd just missed. This is the covered street that inspired some of the lines in the Ciudad de las Tres Culturas poem. See the lanterns? And you can just make out the green vines hanging from the windows. | |
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