A distraction from New Hampshire news

For a little glimpse of life in a not-quite-new apartment building in Beijing, and as a way to pass the time while the NH vote comes in, see if you can guess why my wife and I are spending so much time studying sites like this one. (OK, if you don't want to click, it's about how to tell if you're being poisoned in your dwelling by sewer gas. Ah, the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent!) For further amusement and distraction, feel free to tell your friends that in China the overnight news will cover primary voting in the state called �–°�½•布什�°� or sometimes �–°�½•布夏, xin hanbushier or xin hanbuxia. Yes, those are two versions of "New Hampshire," the second apparently with a Boston accent.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2008/01/a-distraction-from-new-hampshire-news/7875/