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  • 美东地区中国“国家优秀自费留学生奖学金” 波士顿留学生占获奖者三成

    5月17日，中国驻纽约总领馆隆重举办2012年度“国家优秀自费留学生奖学金”颁奖仪式暨招待会。孙国祥总领事出席颁奖仪式并为获奖学生颁奖，岑建君参赞主持颁奖仪式。
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    上图：波士顿学院的戴昱（左）由好友陪同前来领奖。 （李强 摄）
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  • Mayor Menino Tours District Hall of Boston Innovation District

    Boston, May 22, 2013, — Mayor Thomas M. Menino today gave a full progress update on Boston’s innovation center, and revealed the name of the building under construction at 75 Northern Avenue on the South Boston Waterfront. District Hall will play a central role in the social infrastructure of the growing Innovation District and will serve as a home base for entrepreneurs to make connections, build relationships, and convene programs and events.
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    (L-R)Mayor Menino, Gov. Patrick, Roger Crandall and Joe Fallon at groundbreaking of Boston Innovation District on June 22, 2011 in South Boston. (photo credit: David Li, bostonese.com)
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  • Q & A with Andrew Conning on China Education Policy

    By China Education Symposium

    Andrew Conning is a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Graduate Student Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. His research examines the structures of reasoning with which individuals across cultures make sense of international and interethnic issues. He is spending 2012-13 conducting research in China as a Fulbright scholar and Harvard Traveling Fellow.
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  • UNH数学家张益唐证明世纪难题——孪生素数有无穷多个

    【原载中国青年报5月17日头版】张益唐是个对数字“极其敏感”的人，他能把大学同班同学的出生日期背得“滚瓜烂熟”，并在每个人过生日时发去一封祝福邮件。同为恢复高考后北京大学数学系第一批学生，美国普渡大学数学系教授沈捷就享受过这样的“待遇”。但他发现，七八年前张益唐突然“消失”了。因为，从那时起，他再没收到过张的生日祝福，“给他发邮件也没再回过”。
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    上图：《自然》杂志网站报道的截图。
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  • Xiaojie Li Cleared of Trespassing Charge in Nashua Apple Store Taser Arrest Incident

    By David Li, translated by Shuzhi Zhang, bostonese.com

    On Dec. 11, 2012, Xiaojie Li of Newton, Mass. was arrested by policemen with the help of Taser when she tried to purchase iPhone in the Apple store at Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua, NH. Five months later, Ms. Li appeared in the circuit court of Nashua, facing trespassing and resisting arrest charges in the afternoon of May 10. The judge heard the testimonies from various witnesses and interrogation of witnesses by the attorneys of both sides. At end of the half-day trial, the judge dismissed the trespassing charge and upheld the resisting arrest charge, but declined to issue any penalty against Ms. Li. The record of resisting arrest will be removed if Ms. Li commits no new violation in the next three years, according to the ruling.
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    Ms. Li shows marks on he wrists from the arrest at Apple Store in Nashua, NH.
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  • 波士顿清华校友会举办校庆102周年晚宴

    【侨报周末特约记者李强波士顿图文报道】 5月5日晚，波士顿清华校友会假华埠帝苑大酒楼举行了母校102岁华诞庆祝晚宴，200多位清华校友和友人出席了晚宴。
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    上图：（左起）任赫辰、刘祯科聆听林巍的致词。
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  • 2013 SAPA-NE Annual Conference Features Nobel Laureate and High Level Execs

    By Sino-American Pharmaceutical Professionals Association New England (SAPA-NE)

    SAPA-NE is very pleased to announce that the 15th SAPA-NE Annual Conference will take place in MIT Sloan School of Management and Walker Memorial Morss Hall at MIT on May 25th, 2013 (8:00 am – 5:30 pm). Dr. Bruce Beutler, the 2011 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine will join the annual conference as one of the keynote speakers.
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  • NECINA 2011年会迎接 全球创新时代

    【侨报周末特约记者李强于2011年6月】 6月11日，纽英伦中华资讯网络协会（NECINA）在全是福镇（Chelmsford）瑞迪森（Radisson）酒店举办年会，主题是“NECINA在全球创新时代的催化剂作用”。近200名网协会员和其他华人专业社团代表出席了年会。
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    上图： 年会演讲人合影。（左起）郑茹、陈君瑶、郭大城、毛中颖、陆德礼、尹南鹰和沈心焯。
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  • 舞龙、变脸、少林功夫 威斯伍中华文化之夜精彩纷呈

    【侨报周末特约记者李强波士顿报道、邹新中摄影】 5月11日晚，第六届威斯伍中华文化之夜在威斯伍高中礼堂举行。500多位当地居民和嘉宾聚集在这个波士顿西南郊的小镇，欣赏到一台充满中华文化元素的晚会，其中有不少观众是站在礼堂的后面看完整场表演的。
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    舞蹈表演。（邹新中 摄）
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  • E-Commerce China Dangdang’s Share Price Rose Sharply after Announcing 1Q 2013 Results

    BEIJING, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — E-Commerce China Dangdang Inc. (“Dangdang” or the “Company”) (NYSE: DANG), a leading business-to-consumer e-commerce company in China, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013.

    First Quarter 2013 Highlights

    • Gross Margin in the first quarter of 2013 was 17.2%, the highest level since the second quarter of 2011, compared to 14.2% in the first quarter of 2012 and 13.4% in the fourth quarter of 2012.
    • Net Loss for the first quarter of 2013 was RMB72.7 million ($11.7 million), representing 5.5% of total revenues, as compared with a net loss ofRMB99.5 million in the first quarter of 2012 representing 9.2% of total revenues and a net loss of RMB122.1 million representing 7.6% of revenues in the fourth quarter of 2012.
    • Gross Merchants Value (“GMV”) of the marketplace in the first quarter of 2013 were RMB584.1million ($94.0 million), a 193% increase from the corresponding period in 2012.

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