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• 1989: The Year the Berlin Wall Fell, Chinese Students Were Massacred and the Earth Shook in SF, and I Became a Writer

  November 5, 2009

  • The year the Berlin Wall fell and Chinese students were massacred at Tianamen Square in Beijing and San Francisco was hit by the Big One was the year that I decided to become a journalist. Before that I, having graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in biochemistry degree, was working in a Cancer Research Lab killing mice and bombarding their mammary cells with carcinogens. Then I got accepted to ...
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• Letter from a Texas Tech student to Andrew Lam

  October 21, 2009

  • A writer writes. He often writes into the dark. but once in a while there's a response, and it turns that solitary gesture into an intimate dialogue. The letter from a college student sent me after she read my book,  Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora, is earnest and untempered and well, flattering as hell, not to mention deeply moving... I invite you to read ...
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• Save the Polar Bears, Be Creative with Trash

  October 15, 2009

  •    I just read that the Arctic will have ice-free summers within 2 decades, and among other things it will mean the end of the polar bears, and probably the penguins as well. They are great swimmers – penguins better than bears – but they all need ice and islands in order to venture out to deep sea for fishing. Without these ice covers they’d drown. it’s a horrible thought that these ...
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