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    Nov292006

    Typhoon...Durian?


    One of the great challenges that comes with living in Asia is trying to decipher the names of each year's tropical storms. Unlike hurricanes, which mostly seem to have mundane English names, their western Pacific cousins can be slapped with monikers drawn from any of the regions languages. Every summer and fall, a procession of exotically named tropical storms march up out of the warm waters east of the Philippines to threaten havoc on the nations of East Asia. Well, they seem to have run out of the exotic or poetic titles. Durian, may sound exotic in the Americas or Europe, but anyone who has been around a Asian fruit stand in summer knows that there is nothing patently poetic about theses spiky rugby ball-sized stinking monstrosities. I suppose it is, after all, late in the storm season. So, one supposes, that they must in times like this fall back on fruit. Could typhoon mango or wax apple be on the horizon?

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