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	<description>Liz Aab's observations on China, New York, London, and the world at large.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Why Nerds Wear Glasses</title>
		<link>http://www.lizaab.com/2012/02/10/why-nerds-wear-glasses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Aab</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Why, really, do nerds wear glasses?  As a nearsighted nerd myself, I&#8217;d often heard the usual reasoning: reading strains your eyes.  But surely non-nerds strain their eyes too, don&#8217;t they?  Like by looking at screens like this one?
I think the causality is wrong: it&#8217;s not nerdism that causes bad vision;  it&#8217;s bad vision that creates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walk This Way</title>
		<link>http://www.lizaab.com/2011/01/16/walk-this-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Aab</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to dictate someone’s character, buy their shoes.
No, this Aabservation isn’t about how shoes look — it’s about how shoes feel. Sure, a shoe’s appearance sends a message about the wearer’s social group and personality. But a deeper reason, I think, is that shoes physically affect how we walk. And how we walk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water in the Air</title>
		<link>http://www.lizaab.com/2010/12/21/water-in-the-air/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Aab</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Water in the air is a funny thing. Freeze it the right way, and it comes down in flakes so fluffy that snowboarding feels like flying. Freeze it the wrong way, and it shuts down London Heathrow airport for days when you are trying to get back to New York for Christmas.
With so many thousands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fastest Changing Day</title>
		<link>http://www.lizaab.com/2010/09/26/the-fastest-changing-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Aab</dc:creator>
		
	<category>London</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week was Autumn Equinox, when day and night are twelve hours each.  Few people realize, though, it&#8217;s also the time when the day shortens most quickly.  Indeed, here in London, the day was a full 3 minutes and 54 seconds shorter on September 25st than it was the day before.  This change adds up: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forte Foundation Posting - first days at LBS</title>
		<link>http://www.lizaab.com/2010/09/02/forte-foundation-posting-first-days-at-lbs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Aab</dc:creator>
		
	<category>London</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am involved with the Forte Foundation and will be writing a few blog posts over the coming year.  My first post, which describes the past few weeks at LBS and has a link to some photos, is here:
http://forum.fortefoundation.org/2010/08/off-to-good-start-at-london-business.html

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		<title>London White</title>
		<link>http://www.lizaab.com/2010/08/21/london-white/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Aab</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>London</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t get over London White.  It&#8217;s such a beautiful color, and is everywhere here in London:  lining window frames on stone buildings, coating interior walls, painted over elaborate moldings on hundred-year-old ceilings, stripped across black asphalt to tell you to &#8216;&#8217;Look Right &#8211;>'&#8217; when crossing the street.  London White is a majestic white, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving China</title>
		<link>http://www.lizaab.com/2010/07/02/leaving-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Aab</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I leave China tomorrow, after four and a half years here.  I am heading out to get an MBA at London Business School (LBS), a two year program that has me graduating in the summer of 2012 (just in time for the London Olympics!). 
As my time in China comes to a close, I&#8217;ve been thinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Elevator</title>
		<link>http://www.lizaab.com/2010/05/11/the-elevator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 16:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Aab</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I got into the elevator on my way to work the other morning, brow furrowed with something or other on my mind, and pushed &#8220;19&#8243; for my office&#8217;s floor.  On the fifth floor, when one of the passengers I hadn&#8217;t noticed got off, a cleaning lady stepped into the elevator with a cloth in hand.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thumbs Up for Brazil</title>
		<link>http://www.lizaab.com/2010/04/18/thumbs-up-for-brazil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Aab</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s late April and still winter in Beijing, but two months ago, I got a preview of summer when I was in Brazil.  I used to think that New York was halfway around the world from Beijing.  But after my 14 hour flight to JFK (where I stopped to have lunch in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About Stuff</title>
		<link>http://www.lizaab.com/2010/02/06/about-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Aab</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Chasing after a rickshaw piled seven feet high with every item of my personal belongings last weekend, I remembered why I hate stuff.  I was just moving out of my apartment with the help of the guy who collects trash in my neighbor, and his dirty-but-sturdy leg-powered rickshaw.  Since I was living in a walk-up, [...]]]></description>
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