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		A Personal Journey ^Votes:0 Gordon Chang A PERSONAL JOURNEY Biographer Gordon Chang Feels a Kinship with his Subject By Diane Manuel As he read the single-spaced, four-page letters that Yamato Ichihashi typed from the Tule Lake Relocation Center to his colleagues back on the Farm, Gordon Chang began to identify with the personal and professional dilemmas the Japanese professor had faced. He was primarily, intellectually interested in economics, but he was pushed to teach East Asian studies because of race, Chang says. One of only two faculty members appointed to teach Asian American studies courses at Stanford (along with David Palumbo-Liu, associate professor of comparative literature), Chang is an associate professor of history whose areas of expertise include American diplomacy, the Cold War, modern Ch Read More Go to Site


		Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency, boona cheema, Executive Director ^Votes:0 Building Opportunities for Self - Sufficiency Turning Lives Around boona cheema, Executive Director boona cheema was born and raised in India in a Sikh family. After working with wounded children in Vietnam during the war, she immigrated to the United States in 1971. A trained Unitarian Universalist Minister, she holds a B.S. in economics and Masters in journalism and divinity. She was awarded an honorary doctorate of Humanitarian Letters for her work as an urban minister. She has an extensive portfolio of political, social, and economic justice work and is currently the Executive Director of BOSS (described below). In the U.S., boona helps develop policy and direct action strategies by working in partnership with a broad range of local, statewide, and national organizations and coalitions Read More Go to Site

		Citizens' Initiative Commission Members: Elaine L. Chao ^Votes:0 Citizens' Initiative on Race and Ethnicity Elaine L. Chao Elaine L. Chao was appointed a distinguished fellow at the Heritage Foundation, the premier policy research institute in Washington, D.C., in August 1996. She was named chairman of Heritage's Asian Studies Center Advisory Council in April 1998. She also serves as senior editor of Policy Review: The Journal of American Citizenship . From 1992 to 1996, Chao was president and chief executive officer of United Way America (UWA). She was recruited to lead the organization to recovery following nationwide coverage of financial mismanagement and abuse by the previous management. Under her leadership, dramatic new reforms were instituted, resulting in a return of public trust and confidence, and overall fundraising by local United Ways achi Read More Go to Site

		Dr An Wang ^Votes:0 The Doctor and his calculators by James Redin "A computer like the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1 1/2 tons." Popular Mechanics, 1949 edition. Electronic calculators, like computers, were not always small. The LOCI ( Logarithmic Calculating Instrument ), the first electronic scientific calculator introduced by Wang Laboratories in 1964 had to stand in the floor and supported multiple keyboards attached to them. Dr. An Wang is normally associated with the invention of the ferrite core memory so widely used in early computers, this is a recount of his involvement in the development of the electronic calculators. It was September of 1949 when An Wang filed his patent application Read More Go to Site

		How I Grew ^Votes:0 Digital Library & Archives ETDs ImageBase Ejournals News EReserve Special Collections Editors: James Blasingame James.Blasingame@asu.edu Lori A. Goodson lagoodson@cox.net Volume 22, Number 2 Winter 1995 DLA Ejournal Home \| ALAN Home \| Table of Contents for this issue \| Search ALAN and other ejournals How I Grew Marie G. Lee I grew up in a small town in northern Minnesota -- the same town where Bob Dylan grew up. I was the only Asian teen -- minority teen -- in my high school. I didn't think about being Asian very frequently; perhaps if someone threw a racial slur at me, that was about the only time. More than anything, like most adolescents, I just wanted to fit in. When I was growing up in the 70s, all my friends and I read Seventeen magazine religiously. Seventeen had these fabulous mode Read More Go to Site

		Player Bio: Catherine Fox :: Women's Swimming ^Votes:0 Choose Sport Baseball Basketball - M Basketball - W Cross Country Fencing Field Hockey Football Golf - M Golf - W Gymnastics - M Gymnastics - W Lacrosse - W Rowing - M Rowing - W Rowing - Ltw Sailing Soccer - M Soccer - W Softball Squash - W Swim/Diving - M Swim/Diving - W Sync Swimming Tennis - M Tennis - W Track & Field Volleyball - M Volleyball - W Water Polo - M Water Polo - W Wrestling News Releases Catherine Fox Class: Senior Hometown: Shawnee Mission, Kan. High School: Bishop Miege Position: Back/Sprint Free 21-time All-American Nine-time NCAA Champion American record-holder Career Bests: 100 Back 52.47; 100 fly 53.01; 50 Free 22.01; 100 Free 48.68 One of the top female swimmers in Stanford history ... Has won a total of 21 All-American honors with a maximum of seven recognitions in Read More Go to Site

		The Noguchi Museum ^Votes:0 Museum Address: 9-01 33 rd Road (at Vernon Boulevard), Long Island City, NY Mailing Address: 32-37 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, NY 11106 Website © The Noguchi Museum. All Rights Reserved Top Home Site Index Read More Go to Site

		The Philip Ahn Admiration Society ^Votes:0 "I always laughed when I saw Philip play mean Japanese villains. He was Korean and one of the sweetest guys I ever knew." -- Yin Kim Biography Credits Gallery Odds and Ends References Search Read More Go to Site

		Yahoo! IR - Directors & Officers ^Votes:0 Yahoo! Home - Help - Check Email Yahoo! Directors & Officers Directors & Officers \| News \| Analysts \| SEC Edgar Filings Investor FAQ \| Stock Split FAQ Back to Investor Relations Center Jerry Yang - Co-Founder, Chief Yahoo and Director Jerry Yang, a Taiwanese native raised in San Jose, Calif., co-created the Yahoo! Internet navigational guide in April 1994 with David Filo and co-founded Yahoo! Inc. in April 1995. Yang, a leading force in the media industry, has been instrumental in building Yahoo! into the world's most highly trafficked Web site and one of the Internet's most recognized brands. A member of Yahoo!'s board of directors, Yang works closely with the company's president and CEO to develop corporate business strategies and guide the future direction of the company. Yang holds B.S Read More Go to Site

		Yo-Yo Ma ^Votes:0 news tour bio podcast photos video discography silk road project message board Please download the latest version of Flash Player here . NEWS Join the YO-YO MA's mailing list to stay up-to-date on all the latest news, tour info, contest announcements, and more! Alex Ross interviews Yo-Yo about "New Impossibilities" Read all about it at The Rest Is Noise Yo-Yo Ma's New Impossibilities Available Now! Yo-Yo Ma, Silk Road, and Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brings Us 'New Impossibilities' Always eager to break down barriers and inspire new platforms for learning, cellist Yo-Yo Ma wanted to see what would happen if the cultural institutions of one city focused all of their energies on a single event. Working with the city of Chicago, together they embarked on the yearlong city-wide celebration SILK Read More Go to Site

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