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		<title>Cleveland for a Weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Mistake on the Lake,&#8221; the city where the river caught on fire, the home of Drew Carey:  Cleveland bears the brunt of more jokes than any American city not known as &#8220;Motown.&#8221;  Most of what you&#8217;ve heard is probably true, but this does not mean that Cleveland isn&#8217;t worth exploring for a weekend.  Located [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Long Distance Bus Transportation:  Now Made in China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During my 3.5 years living fulltime in China, I set the goal of exploring as much of the country as possible.  Before I returned to the United States, I had visited all but 6 of China’s 27 provinces, the majority of its provincial capitals, and tens of rural towns and villages.  The way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benross.net/wordpress/american-long-distance-bus-transportation-now-made-in-china/2010/02/13/</link>
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		<title>Chinese New York</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Outside of the Middle Kingdom and Southeast Asia , there is probably no spot in the world more Chinese than New York City.  When people think of American cities with heavy Chinese concentrations, usually San Francisco and Los Angeles are the first to come to mind.  It often comes as surprise that New [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benross.net/wordpress/chinese-new-york/2010/01/28/</link>
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		<title>East Coast Excursion &#8216;09, Photo Highlights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the ease of international travel in the 21st Century, as an American it&#8217;s easy to forget the array of urban tourism that the United States has to offer.  It had been since my roadtrip from Kansas to California just upon college graduation in 2003 that I had embarked on a true multi-stop adventure on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benross.net/wordpress/east-coast-excursion-09-photo-highlights/2010/01/17/</link>
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		<title>4 days in NYC, now in Philly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time for another short update&#8230;I&#8217;ll have more thorough write-ups and pictures once I get back to Chicago.  I&#8217;m in Philadelphia now, after 4 days in New York City.  I had previously been to New York only once, so I spent a majority of my time exploring, riding around on the subway and exploring [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benross.net/wordpress/4-days-in-nyc-now-in-philly/2010/01/02/</link>
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		<title>4 days in Boston, now off to NYC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s a rainy Sunday morning, and I&#8217;m just about to wrap up my four plus day stay in Boston. I&#8217;ve spent most of my time wandering various sections of Boston and the surrounding communities and have taken a lot of pictures, but am going to wait until I get back to Chicago for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benross.net/wordpress/4-days-in-boston-now-off-to-nyc/2009/12/27/</link>
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		<title>East Coast Excursion &#8216;09</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past Thursday I sent in my last grad school application.  On Friday I turned thirty.  And tomorrow I am embarking on my first significant journey of my thirties.  It’s been a long time since I’ve traveled extensively in the United States, with my last major trip being my road trip from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benross.net/wordpress/east-coast-excursion-09/2009/12/22/</link>
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		<title>Halfway through 《奋斗》</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I’m just over halfway finished with 《奋斗》 and wanted to check in with a few updates and observations.  So far, I still agree with everything I previously wrote as to watching the show being an extremely efficient acquisition method.  I’ve been spending about two hours a day to watching the show (time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benross.net/wordpress/halfway-through-%e3%80%8a%e5%a5%8b%e6%96%97%e3%80%8b/2009/12/13/</link>
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		<title>How to Fix the College Football Postseason</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it’s that time of the year again.  We are near the end of the college football regular season, and it’s about to re-open the annual BCS bitchathon:  how the system isn’t fair; how teams from non-BCS schools get marginalized by the process; how we should just stop all the insanity and move [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benross.net/wordpress/how-to-fix-the-college-football-postseason/2009/12/04/</link>
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		<title>Having fun with Chinese colloquialisms from 奋斗</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it’s been almost a week and I’m now 8 episodes into 《奋斗》.  It still continues to be an invaluable learning experience, and I probably haven’t really felt myself pushed like this since my first 6 months of Chinese study.  One of the benefits has been a whole new slew of fun new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benross.net/wordpress/having-fun-with-chinese-colloquialisms-from-%e5%a5%8b%e6%96%97/2009/11/30/</link>
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