A Pakistani helicopter winches a wounded sailor to safety as part of a joint rescue exercise with the Chinese navy in the East China Sea October 22, 2003.

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I didn't know the Nanchang fighter came with flight attendants!

Where is the galley, anyway? And what kind of in flight movies would they show?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Brian

Studying how to catch bachelors as a flight attendant?:D

Hu in Australia
 

Chinese President Hu Jintao speaks to the Australian National Parliament in Canberra October 24, 2003. Hu, the first Asian President to have spoken in Australia's parliament, spoke of closer ties between the two countries. Hu will visit New Zealand after his four-day visit to Australia.

Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) is guided by Australian Prime Minister John Howard after making his speech to the Australian National Parliament in Canberra October 24, 2003.

Tourism in the balance
 

A parade highlighting a child-balancing feat proceeds along a street in Beijing during a Hong Kong tourism promotion on October 23, 2003. Boosting domestic tourism is an important part of the Beijing-Hong Kong Economic Co-operation Symposium which opened in the capital Thursday.

Hong Kong is showing advertisements for tourism on American television.

Welcome to HongKong and China mainland.

Guangzhou tourism promotion event opens in Paris
 

Li Wenyao (C), Director of China's Guangzhou Tourism Administration, opens a jug of rice wine with other guests during a tourism promotion event opened in Paris, France, Oct. 23. The tourism promotion event aimed at making more French people to know Guangzhou, the capital city of southeast China's Guangdong Province, and promote development of the city's tourism.

French woman with Beijing hutong
 

French woman Hua Xinmin admires the fine stone carving above the gate of an old folk house in Beijin. Born in a lane in Beijing 48 years ago and as a foreign national of some Chinese blood lineage, she loves hutong (lanes). She has devoted herself to the protection of lanes in the Chinese capital since 1998. Her everyday work is to investigate those courtyards that shoud be protected, or have been demolished as well as those that are being dismantled, and then forward the information to the government and cultural relics sector for the protection of hutong.

Amazing coloured paintings on human body
 

Group Photos: Ancient tomb was found in Sichuan
 

The picture taken on Aug. 14, 2003 shows two terra cotta warriors excavated from a tomb of an official in ancient China's Song Dynasty (960-1127). The terra cotta warriors were unearthed in 1987 in Xinjin County, southwest China's Sichuan Province. A total of 48 funerary objects were discovered in the tomb. The tomb of the wife of the mentioned official was unearthed on Aug. 13, 2003 in the county.

The picture taken on Aug. 14, 2003 shows a mini-house excavated from the tomb of an official in ancient China's Song Dynasty (960-1127), in Xinjin County, southwest China's Sichuan Province. The mini-house and 47 other funerary objects were discovered in the tomb in 1987.

The Nelson-Atkins Museum here in Kansas City has an excellent Oriental collection, complete with several of these pottery buildings. I guess I didn't realize that they were funerary items, though.

The most amazing piece in the entire collection, IMHO, is this one... http://www.nelson-atkins.org/collect...l/bodhisat.htm

It is especially well-situated in the museum, and is an wonderful place for contemplation and introspection. Very, very nice energy there. However, the museum is currently undergoing a major construction and revamping project, and this wonderful statue may be moved. I sincerely hope not, because it is just too perfect as it is.

And, just so you know that I'm not *too* new-agey and all Pagan weird, here's my very favorite piece in the whole gallery, by our own local boy Thomas Hart Benton:

http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg...ages/422bg.jpg

Gansu earthquake
 

Photo taken in Shandan in northwest China's Gansu Province, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2003 shows a house destroyed by a strong earthquake . Two powerful tremors shook a remote, earthquake-prone region of northwestern China, killing nine people and injuring dozens of others.

Earthquake victims
Gansu earthquake