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Andrew Q Lam's Blog
November 23, 2009
- I wrote this essay some years back but since it’s timely once more, here it is with a little tweaking… Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.Andrew—- **** “Thanks-giving,” said Mr. K., my seventh grade English teacher. “Repeat after me: Thanksgiving.”“Ssshthanks give in,” I repeated, but the word tumbled and hissed, turning my mouth into a wind tunnel. A funny word, “Ssshthanks ...
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November 13, 2009
- The universe is suddenly very wet. With the discovery of water on Mars and now on our nearest heavenly body, the moon, it seems that what was once impossible has become very possible: life elsewhere.We know that Earth is constantly bombarded by meteors when we look up into the night sky and spot shooting stars. But more astounding is astronomer Lou Frank’s recent discovery. Using the Hubble ...
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November 10, 2009
- War and Peace and Vietnamposted on nov 10, 2009 10:45:00 am by andrew lam[ filed under: asia conflict ]Andrew Lam Vietnamese-American Author and Co-Founder of New America Media was keynote speaker on the occasion of the 14th Anniversary of Peacetrees Vietnam, whose aim is to renew relationships with the people of Vietnam and promote a safe, healthy future for its families & children. ...
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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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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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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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October 14, 2009
- Though the Dalai Lama was snubbed by the Obama administration when the president refused to meet with him, there was an open door policy everywhere else in our nation’s capital – from congressional receptions to Synagogues to schools. One footage in particular is striking: the most famous monk of the 20th century sits on the dais and lectures on wisdom in the modern world while ...
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September 21, 2009
- SPJ ANNOUNCES 2009 EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM AWARD WINNERS HOLLY KERNAN OF KALW PUBLIC RADIO GETS TOP AWARDSan Francisco, September 21, 2009 – The Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists recognized Holly Kernan, news director of KALW, as Journalist of the Year in its 2009 Excellence in Journalism Awards. Kernan’s creativity and determination, prevailing in an ...
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September 17, 2009
- Ph(o)netics Pho, that ingenious Vietnamese concoction, is an incomparable and sacred broth. Spiced with roasted star anise, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, charred ginger and onion, and made savory by fish sauce, the soup is brewed in a low heat until the beef falls off the bone and the marrow seeps. Pho inspires passion, and is as endemic to Vietnamese culture as the Vietnamese language itself. ...
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September 5, 2009
- Cao Dai Integrates World ReligionsExpands to CaliforniaNew America Media, News Feature, Andrew Lam, Posted: Sep 06, 2009 “We are descendants of Mr. Lam Quang Ty,” my sister Nancy tells the group of dark skinned old men in white pajamas. They are sitting on the tile floor at the entrance of the famous and colorful Holy See, better known as Cao Dai Temple in Tay Ninh province, bordering ...
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August 13, 2009
- Asian American's Rising Suicide Rates -- Three Students Take their LivesNew America Media, Analysis, Andrew Lam, Posted: Aug 13, 2009 Three Chinese-American students at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have killed themselves in the last three months. Two died by helium asphyxiation and the cause of death of the third student, though deemed a suicide, is yet to be determined. ...
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August 8, 2009
- In an era of shrinking foreign bureaus, struggling news organizations are relying more and more on freelance journalists. For the go-it-alone intrepid reporter or photographer abroad, as well as journalists working for non-traditional media and less powerful outlets such as Current TV, opportunities to cover stories in hot spots overseas abound.But many, as in the case of Shane Bauer, a ...
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August 5, 2009
- By Noah NelsonAugust 5, 2009 at 12:26pmRead More: Citizen Journalism, Euna Lee, Greece, Journalism, North Korea. Laura Ling,Police Shootings, Risks, Risky BehaviorWhen Laura Ling and Euna Lee were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in a North Korean prison camp we asked Josh Wolf- who holds the record in the U.S. for the longest stay in prison for a reporter protecting his source ...
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July 21, 2009
- Diversity of Journalism for a Multicultural SocietyNew America Media, Interview, Andrew Lam, Posted: Jul 21, 2009 Editor’s Note: A new study of journalism’s commitment to inclusion concludes that too many diversity initiatives focus on the modest and mostly inconsequential goal of newsroom integration. Buttressed by a case study of coverage of a local issue in mainstream and minority ...
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July 8, 2009
- Living in Vietnam during the war as a child, I witnessed enough of American military power to know that no ideology or rationale can justify killing more than a million innocent civilians. Upon Robert McNamara's death I took a look again at his confession on-screen in “The Fog of War,” the documentary by Errol Morris. It was gratifying to hear Robert McNamara, one of the principle ...
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