BEIJING — Much like in the rest of the world, the coming "doomsday" supposedly preordained by the Mayans to strike earth Friday at the end of a 5125-year calendar has been something of a running joke in China.The worldwide hype over a supposed Mayan prophecy that the world would end on Friday may have been mildly amusing to most of us. What is not so funny is a finding that 1 in 10 people actually believed it. Read moreWe'd already gone through a lot. Now — apocalypse? After Hurricane Sandy and the Newtown, Conn., shootings, many began to gradually remember that Friday was indeed Dec. 21, 2012. That much buzzed-about date that some believed was — accordingSeveral parties last Friday had, in fact, doomsday themes. But what does one wear to the end of the world? Many wore alien costumes, hoping that Martians might miraculously conjure up salvation. My own thoughts are that Martians and cataclysms are bunk.School administrators in at least three Michigan counties decided to cancel classes Thursday and Friday because of talk surrounding the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut and rumors connected to the Mayan calendar
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