A worker checks a pure electric car at a workshop in Jianghuai Automobile Co., Ltd. in Hefei, capital of east China’s Anhui province, Aug 19, 2014. China will exempt new energy cars from a 10-percent purchase tax from Sept 1 to the end of 2017. (Xinhua/Liu Junxi).
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China to Give Tax Breaks to New Energy Cars
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University of Utah Links Genetic Mutation to Tibetan High-Altitude Adaptation
August 28, 2014 – In an environment where others struggle to survive, Tibetans thrive in the thin air on the Tibetan Plateau, with an average elevation of 14,800 feet. A University of Utah led discovery that hinged as much on strides in cultural diplomacy as on scientific advancements, is the first to identify a genetic variation, or mutation, that contributes to the adaptation, and to reveal how it works. The research appears online in the journal Nature Genetics on Aug. 17, 2014.
Figure 2 of the research paper on nature.com.
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“We Are Back” — Market Basket Employees Celebrate Historic Victory
By David Li, bostonese.com
Boston, August 28, 2014, — The parking lot of the Market Basket store in Hudson, Mass. is about half full in the afternoon of August 27. There was a huge sign at the traffic light leading to the shopping plaza on a hill which reads: Market Basket Boycott Over!! Thank you for all you support. Welcome back!!!
A sign at the intersection of route 62 and entrance road to Highland Common in Hudson, Mass. (photo by David Li).
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KTByte Computer Academy Fall Registration Is Now Open
Lexington, Mass., August 26, 2014, –KTByte is a Lexington-based school dedicated to teaching computer science and technologies to students age 9 to 18. It believes early computer education most effectively benefits students throughout their life and career. It recently opened registration for Fall classes.
Picture from a programming class(file photo).
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Tufts Medical Center Receives National Leadership Award from EPA Chief Gina McCarthy
Boston, August 25, 2014, — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy traveled to Boston on Aug. 19 to meet with families and health care workers to discuss the impacts of clean air and President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. At Tufts Medical Center, where the EPA recognized staff with a national leadership award in asthma management earlier this year, Administrator McCarthy met with Barbara Ferrer, Phd, MPH, MEd, Executive Director of the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC); Michael Wagner, MD, President and CEO of Tufts Medical Center and Floating Hospital for Children; May Chin, RN, Program Manager of the Asthma Prevention and Management Initiative at Tufts Medical Center and others involved in asthma treatment and prevention. She heard from Robenia Chambers, a mom of three and a client of BPHC who shared her story of how working with a community health worker helped her with her asthma and her kids.
(L to R)May Chin, Barbara Ferrer, Kurt Spalding, Gina McCarthy, Nathalie Bazil, Michael Wagner, Margaret Reid, Sherry Dong and Laurita Kaigler-Crawlle pose for a group picture (provided by Julie Jette).
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bostonese.com Endorses Leland Cheung in MA Lt. Governor Primary
Boston, August 26, 2014, — bostonese.com, the largest Asian American news website in Boston, announces today that it has endorsed Lt. Governor candidate Leland Cheung in the September 9 Democratic primaries. “Massachusetts needs an innovative leader like Leland when we build the innovation-based economy for the future in this state,” said Mr. David Li, editor-in-chief of bostonese.com.
Leland Cheung (left) talks with bostonese.com columnist and founder of Newton Chinese School Beatrice Lee in an August Moon celebration in Boston Chinatown (file photo).
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Empow Studios Launches STEM-Enriched Fall Classes and After-School Program
Lexington, Mass., August 25, 2014 , — Empow Studios recently released a full calendar of fall classes, including seven new classes: Minecraft Animation, Website Design, 3D Modeling and Printing, App Design, Digital Music Production, LEGO Animation, and Game Design with Unity. There are also two kid-tested favorites: Game Design with Gamemaker and LEGO Robotics.
Empow Studios students work on solar-powered cars.
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Secretary Kerry’s Statement on Peter Theo Curtis
Washington, D.C., August 24, 2014, — Particularly after a week marked by unspeakable tragedy, we are all relieved and grateful knowing that Theo Curtis is coming home after so much time held in the clutches of Jabhat Al-Nusrah.
Peter Theo Curtis is a Boston based writer with a Ph.D. from UMass Amherst (CNN).
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For the Price of a Cup of Coffee, You Can Own a Piece of Chinese American History
All Yin and Yang Press Books on Chinese American history are now available in e-book (kindle, epub, and pdf) as well as paper versions. Descriptions and reviews by scholars and comments from readers are provided in this announcement. For convenient online ordering, click on the following links.
paperback ($14.95) e-books ($2.99)
Photographs of the inside of the Holyoke, MA business owned by Lee Wong Hing, ca. 1904 (National Archives online).
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Cathay Pacific Launches Nonstop Flights between Boston and Hong Kong
Boston, August 22, 2014, -– Cathay Pacific Airways today announced at a joint press conference at the Massachusetts State House with Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation, Richard Davey, President and CEO of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, Paul Guzzi, and Thomas P. Glynn, CEO, Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), that it will commence a new four-times-weekly non-stop service from Boston Logan International Airport to Hong Kong on May 3, 2015, subject to government approval.
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