I was sitting in a coffee shop in Beijing Airport waiting for my plane when a red faced airport attendant came up to me and asked,”Are you Mister Rod Denton?” When I replied that I was, he then said,”I have been searching for you. We have been calling your name. You have missed your flight. Your plane has gone without you.” And the reason I missed my flight was that I could not tell the time. I had forgotten  to synchronize my watch with Chinese time. I had made a serious mistake and would now have to suffer the inconvenient consequences.

My thesis for this paper is One of the …