李强， bostonese.com
在总统选举年的超级星期二，3月6日，王卫东王成为第一位在莱克星顿全镇范围内的选举中当选的华人。当晚大约8点15分，初步计票结果显示了王卫东以262票的优势击败麦凯布先生，赢得了由5名成员组成的莱克星顿镇房委会（Housing Authority）的一员。
当晚，数十名支持者聚集在何毓琦、胡小非夫妇家，他们在一个大的电脑屏幕上聚精会神地观看该镇的网站不断更新的选举结果。当初步结果显示王卫东获胜时，掌声和欢呼声一下子打破了安静的夜晚。 最后的选举结果还显示王卫东同时以最高票数当选莱克星顿镇第八选区的会议员。
王卫东夫妇（左一、二）接受大家的祝贺。
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李强， bostonese.com
据美国中文网报道，毕业于哥伦比亚大学的化工博士、罗德岛大学副教授王鹏在2月6日在上班途中驾车和水泥搅拌卡车相撞，当场死亡，留下妻子和年仅7个月大的女儿卡罗琳。车祸发生在罗德岛州西金士顿（Kingston）镇，警方初步估计因为王鹏驾车失控导致车祸。
据悉，王鹏1975年出生于湖南娄底市，祖籍湖南邵阳，1992年考入清华大学化工系，获本科及硕士学位。2004年取得哥伦比亚大学化工学博士，在 2010年9月开始在罗德岛大学化工系任职助理教授之前，曾经在英特尔和纽泽西理工大学任职。车祸发生以来，美东的湖南同乡、清华校友以及各界侨胞纷纷伸出援手，为王鹏的家人捐款。
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By David Li, bostonese.com with reference information from U.R.I. Department of Chemical Engineering website.
Dr. Peng Wang, a 2004 PhD graduate from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University was involved in a fatal automobile accident on his way to work in Rhode Island on February 6, 2012. He was the husband of Ran Luo and the father of seven-month old Carolyn Wang.
Dr. Wang was born in Loudi, Hunan, China in 1975. He was an outstanding student, and earned his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. In the eyes of his co-workers and friends, Dr. Wang was an outstanding scientist and loving husband and father.
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By David Li, bostonese.com
On Super Tuesday, March 6, of 2012, Dr. Weidong Wang becomes the first Chinese-American elected officer in town-wide elections in the historical Lexington Mass.
【僑報周末特約記者李強波士頓報導】不久前，記者在一個偶然的機會，讀到《人民文學》2001年第6期中，中國報導文學名家陳祖芬的文章“貴人鄉里的小女生”中寫道：張鳳母女偕同到了中國作家協會所安排的文學會議，這一路上所有的人都來照顧老媽媽。“張鳳么，被評爲二十五孝，大家説。看來二十四孝得加上一孝了：孝女張鳳。”
張鳳（左一）在北美華文作協的研討會上。
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【波士顿双语网记者李强2011年7月报道】记者日前访问了橡树园（Oak Meadow）蒙台梭利学校，这所学校位于波士顿西北25英里利透顿（Littleton）镇。虽说被当地人所熟知,不过，它的历史却也不是人人知晓的。玛利亚·蒙台梭利（Maria Montesori）是19世纪末、20世纪初意大利的一位伟大的医生和教育家。她所创立的多感官儿童教育方法（multi－sensory learning）对敎育界产生了深远的影响，以她的教育理念为主导的学校统称为蒙台梭利学校（以下简称蒙校）。
做了6年蒙校校长，即将离任的史泰勒（Dave Stettler）对记者的来访表示欢迎，并亲自为记者用咖啡机做了一杯咖啡。在他的办公室里，史校长系统地阐述了蒙校的教育理念，并对《虎妈战歌》一书发表了他自己的看法，下面是访谈笔录。
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By David Li, translated by Alice Liu
In June 2011, I visited the Oak Meadow Montessori School which is located in the town of Littleton, MA. Although locals from the town know the school very well, they may not be familiar with the history behind it. Dr. Maria Montessori was a distinguished Italian doctor and educator from the late 19th century. Dr. Montessori founded a “multi-sensory learning” teaching system which has had a profound impact on early childhood and elementary education. Schools established based on the Montessori philosophy are called Montessori Schools.
Headmaster Dave Stettler welcomed me in the entrance of the school, and made a cup of coffee using the coffer machine. He had been headmaster for Oak Meadow for the past six years and would leave for another position soon. In his office, Stettler talked about education philosophy of the Montessori Schools and commented on the book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.
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李强， bostonese.com
2月26日，康涅狄格州民主党州议员汤伟麟(William Tong)在波士顿市中心的丽思卡尔顿(Ritz Carlton)酒店接受了记者专访。 在近一个小时的访谈中，汤伟麟讲述了他作为华人移民的儿子正在竞选，努力成为美国大陆第一位亚裔联邦参议员的美国梦，并同记者分享了他对广受关注的陈宇晖案件的看法。
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2月28日晩6点，纽英伦中华公所、华埠主街等机构在泰勒街中华公所会议室举行新闻发布会。 近30位2月8日从夏利臣街25号被波士顿市政府强迫搬出来的居民一同出席了新闻发布会。
中华公所主席黄光野首先问住户们：“大家的居住条件都改善了，是不是？”大家齐声回答说是，并鼓起掌来。 新闻发布会距事发当日已有20天。 一位来自中国浙江的居民吿诉记者，他们2月8日晩在业主联系的旅馆住了一晩，然后到华埠昆士小学体育馆住了6天，之后又到中华公所会议室和活动厅住了5、6天，目前已经搬家到南波士顿的政府廉租屋。
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By David Li, bostonese.com
There was another Lin working hard at Harvard’s Boston Children’s Hospital when Jeremy Lin was playing basketball for Harvard.
In December 2011, journal Science published a long research paper titled Npas4 Regulates a Transcriptional Program in CA3 Required for Contextual Memory Formation, which revealed the key controlling factor of the Npas4 gene for short-term memory converting into long-term memory in the brain. This paper helps further understanding of mechanism of how short-term memory turning into long-term memory in the brain, and will have far-reaching impact on the research and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, amnesia and other neurological disorders.
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