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Badminton is a fast-paced, exciting game that, like table tennis, is not taken very seriously in the U.S. The shuttlecocks zip around like nobody’s business in elite level badminton, which I watched this week and enjoyed very much. But what kind of a name is shuttlecock? Some people call the little…<img src="http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/blogs/sfgate/baytobeijing/index_rss1/~4/364967641" height="1" width="1"/>

From Janny Hu.

I’m not one for promoting birthdays, but something really neat happened a few days ago. I had just gotten off the elevator and was heading to gym when the receptionists/staffers in my building stopped me.
"Happy Birthday!" they said in Mandarin. "This is for you."
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By Kevin Tibbles, NBC News Correspondent
It is a centuries old, elaborate tradition simply called “the Peking Opera.”Acting, singing (although to the western ear that is debatable), tumbling and all sorts of other sundry stuff makes it an enjoyable, if not incomprehensible, evening. So, to be allowed to “suit up” and partake in a production of traditional [...]