Rights back on the table

In the news today is China’s return to the discussion table with the US on human rights. Unless you read the Washington Post headline. Ah, what a difference a little word makes.

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Staying alive

In case you haven’t seen it, the LA Times has an article, A final say? They hope not, that describes the efforts to describe and revitalize Washo, a severely endangered California Indian language. A nice story (and very cool for Alan to have his picture in the [online version of the] paper).

A side-note: check out the photo of Alan facing Ramona. On the shelf in the background there’s a crank-style pencil sharpener. Anyone else think there might have been a better place to install it?