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March 28, 2014 Announcements Dear Friends and Colleagues, Sincerely, Alejandra St. Guillen |
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March 28, 2014 Announcements from Mayor’s Office of New Bostonians
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Running for Her Unfinished Dreams: BU Chinese Community Honors Lu Lingzi
By Tong Chen, bostonese.com
Boston, March 27, 2014, — Everyday after class, Baiyun Yao, a doctoral student at Boston University, goes to the gym to workout. Biking and jogging along the track, Yao is preparing for her first marathon race next month. While doing regular training, her presence is passionate but serious.
Baiyun Yao, who loves hiking, will run the 118th Boston Marathon on April 21 in honor of Lu Lingzi.
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The First Lady’s Travel Journal: Visiting Ancient City Xi’an
Note: This post is part of a series authored by First Lady Michelle Obama to share her visit to China with young people in the U.S. You can read all of the First Lady’s posts atWhiteHouse.gov/First-Lady-China-Trip.
Xi’an, China, — March 24, 2014, — This morning we left Beijing and flew for about two hours to Xi’an, a city of more than 7 million people in central China. If Xi’an were in America, it would be the second-largest city in the country – trailing only New York City – but in China, a nation of more than 1 billion people, Xi’an isn’t even in the top ten.
First Lady Michelle Obama, Sasha, Malia and Marian Robinson tour the Terra Cotta Warriors in Xi’an, China on March 24, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Amanda Lucidon)
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At Least 17 People Injured in Beacon Street Nine-alarm Fire
By David Li, bostonese.com
Boston, March 26, 2013, — A nine-alarm file was reported this afternoon on Beacon Street between Fairfield and Exeter Streets tonight. Many users of WeChat shared the following news update on the popular mobile social media app just before the start of evening commute.
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NPR: The Internet Can Be ‘A Scary Place’ with Tech Outsourcing
By Aarti Shahani for NPR News, aired on KQED station
When you hear the word outsourcing, you might think of threats to American jobs. To cyber experts, there’s another threat: to our data.
This week, thousands of the industry’s leading minds from around the world are discussing the Internet and security at their annual powwow in San Francisco at RSA Conference. These topics matter more and more to us non-experts, especially as people become the victims of cybercrime.
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Boston to Receive $18 Million Funding from FEMA
Boston, March 21, 2014 — This week Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced that Boston will receive $18 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency, representing a 2.47% increase from last year’s funding award. The funds will be used to support ongoing and future homeland security initiatives through the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) grant program.
Military personnel was deployed in Boston on April 15, 2013, after Marathon bombings (bostonese.com file photo).
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Chinese Dramas and the Need for Narrative Reinvention
By Alyza Liu, bostonese.com
In the waning months of 2013 and the waxing ones of 2014, the Korean television drama You Who Came from the Stars (also translated as My Love from the Star, Man from Another Star) made large waves in East and Southeast Asia. Its premise was offbeat – an alien who’s been living in relative anonymity on the Korean Peninsula for almost three centuries meets a Hallyu star – but its charm was undeniable, combining science fiction with romance and even police procedural. You Who Came from the Stars was one of the most popular South Korean dramas (colloquially known as ‘kdramas’) to have aired in China recently.
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Michelle Obama’s Journal from China: Meeting with Students at PKU
Note: This post is part of a series authored by First Lady Michelle Obama to share her visit to China with young people in the U.S. You can read all of the First Lady’s posts at WhiteHouse.gov/First-Lady-China-Trip.
This morning, I had the privilege of visiting Peking University and speaking with Chinese students and American students studying abroad here in China. Peking University was founded more than a hundred years ago, in 1898, and it is one of China’s best-known universities. The American students in the audience today came from a number of different universities, and by studying here in China, they get to experience daily life in this country firsthand, practice their Chinese, and form lifelong friendships with Chinese students.
First Lady Michelle Obama delivers a speech at Peking University (from twitter).
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Honoring Mandela, UN Celebrates the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
By Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General
This year, the world commemorates the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination for the first time following the death of former South African President Nelson Mandela. This sad reality is also a reminder of his courageous struggle against apartheid and his inspiring victory over the racist forces that had imprisoned him for 27 years.
Mandela speaks at UN General Assembly (file photo).
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Natural-product-based Inhibitor to Treat Parkinson Identified by Chinese Researchers
By Wu Fang, Research Institute of Systems Biomedicine
Shanghai, March 20, 2014, –A novel natural-product-based inhibitor for the treatment of Parkinson has been identified from the endemic plant in Xishuangbanna as a result of the interdisciplinary cooperation between biology and chemistry, led by Wu Fang research group, from Shanghai Jiaotong University(SJTU) Shanghai Center for Systems Biomedicine, and Zhang Weidong research group, from School of Pharmacy. The findings have been published on the ACS Chemical Biology, a well-known periodical of American Chemical Society (ACS).
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