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According to the BBC, a number - a high number - of Chinese children have been given the name Aoyun over the last fifteen years. Aoyun, of course, means "Olympic Games" (check your Chinese Book of Baby Names). Evidently, it's not that uncommon in China to name children after important events or occasions. Many nations - Germany, for example, and Brazil - have laws against giving children odd names. This has always struck me as a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it seems to curb freedom. On the other hand, it seems to curb child abuse. Should China have these laws? Should the United States?

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Mo Rocca appears on a bunch of shows, including CBS News Sunday Morning (with the indescribably wonderful Charles Osgood), The Tonight Show on NBC, and NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! He's a sometime judge on Iron Chef and was featured on Telemundo's Amore Descarado. Last year he starred on Broadway in the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His expose "All the President's Pets" was published by Crown in 2004.



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Mo Rocca appears on a bunch of shows, including CBS News Sunday Morning (with the indescribably wonderful Charles Osgood), The Tonight Show on NBC, and NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! He's a sometime judge on Iron Chef and was featured on Telemundo's Amore Descarado. Last year he starred on Broadway in the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His expose "All the President's Pets" was published by Crown in 2004.

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