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Foreign visitors to Beijing are often astonished by its citizens’ capacity for expelling mucus.
Spitting is not just confined to the open air.
The floors of shops and restaurants are often peppered with phlegm.
But Beijingers are now being told they must abandon this cherished tradition.
The Beijing Capital Ethics Development Office has declared spitting the city’s number one bad habit.

Special bags
Police have been ordered out on to the streets to track down offenders. Closed circuit television cameras will be used to catch them in the act.
“This year we will intensify our law enforcement efforts in this field,” Zhang Huiguang, director of Beijing’s Capital Ethics Development Office, told a news conference.
“We will require law enforcement officials to step up the frequency of fines.”
For those who simply cannot kick the habit, there is an alternative. Hundreds of uniformed “mucus monitors” will patrol the streets handing out free spitting bags.

Engaging in that age-old undergraduate tradition of shots and imbibing copious amounts of beer, the delegation nevertheless conducted themselves in a relatively respectable manner. The owners of Pure Girl appeared overwhelmed, as it was semi-officially the only time anyone has ever been into the bar. (Nearby Pure Girl 2 and 3 were mostly empty.)

Later on the same weekend, a delegation of 30 or so students from Leeds University went on a twenty bar pub crawl. One of the delegation pronounced the Wudaokou bar Propaganda, “the best place to meet chicks.”

I’m down in Lijiang, Yunnan Province, again but this time on our annual firm outing. Tonight we went to a hot pot restaurant in the Old Town, the same place we went to last night because the food was so good. Yvette, one of my colleagues, saw a rat running across the floor - we were a bit disturbed by this but kept on with the meal. What drew the line was a rat running across my lap. I am not kidding. We were sitting on these benches and I don’t know how it got up there but I felt something on my lap as I was eating and I looked down and there was a rat there!!!! It was awful.

Half of women who were infected through sexual intercourse with a Korean man were of blood type B, but 98 percent of men who were infected through intercourse with a Korean woman had a blood type of B.
If people with AIDS were infected from normal intercourse between men and women, the percentage of blood type B should be similar. But the test result showed a difference nearly two times the number.
The difference is attributed to homosexual relationships. Ninty-eight percent of those infected through homosexual love were with blood type B.
Doctor Lee Jong-gu at the NIH said that in many cases, men infected by homosexual sex lied to their wives, saying that they got the virus from sex with women.
The NIH concluded that AIDS has been spreading through homosexual relationships, and no one was infected through sexual intercourse with women, according to the investigation.