Cleaning up in Beijing

The quality of the air in Beijing isn’t the only thing that the image-conscious government of China is improving. More appealing English translations of traditional dishes have been provided to restaurants in preparation for the upcoming Olympic visitors. “Husband and wife’s lung slice” will now be rendered as “beef and ox tripe in chili sauce,” while “bean curd made by pockmarked woman” becomes “mapo tofu”.

(No, I’m not making this up.)

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Isolated tribe spotted in Brazil

Over half of the world's 100 uncontacted tribes live in either Brazil or Peru. These pictures were taken to help prove that these tribes do in fact exist and to help efforts to protect their land.

BBC NEWS Americas Isolated tribe spotted in Brazil

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