Photo: Snakes on a dame
MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images A Chinese snake charmer drapes his young assistant with snakes at a temple fair on the eve of the Chinese New Year in Beijing on February 6, 2008. The upcoming Year of the Rat threatens to see a build-up of international tensions, natural and air disasters, and a more turbulent stock market, ...
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A Chinese snake charmer drapes his young assistant with snakes at a temple fair on the eve of the Chinese New Year in Beijing on February 6, 2008. The upcoming Year of the Rat threatens to see a build-up of international tensions, natural and air disasters, and a more turbulent stock market, soothsayers and analysts say.
Blake Hounshell is a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.
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