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  • “Chinese Mother” Speech at Third Annual “Chinese Bridge” University Student Chinese Speech Contest in New England Area

    By Marcus Larsen-Strecker, Tufts University, Chinese teacher: Wentao Li
    (Marcus Larsen-Strecker is a contestant of the Third Annual “Chinese Bridge” University Student Chinese Speech Contest in New England Area. He gave this speech in Chinese on March 23 at UMass Boston.)

    Respected teachers, ladies and gentleman! Thank you very much for finding the time to come and listen to my speech. Today I would like to share a story with the audience. I hope that through my story, the audience will be able to better understand the significant impact studying Chinese has had on my life.
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    In the picture above, Marcus wrote “Long live friendship between China and USA” in Chinese Calligraphy.
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  • How the Latest Snowstorm Turned My Corolla into Prius

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    Boston, March 8, 2013, — I live north of Boston, and had to go to Longwood area this afternoon for an appointment. When I opened the door this morning, there was already several inches of snow. I parked my car in a way that it was against the strong wind overnight. To my surprise, my Corolla looked more like a Prius with wet snow on top of the trunk shaped by the strong wind.
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  • Seven Days of Chinese New Year in Beautiful Pictures

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    When Blizzard Nemo dumped over 30 inches of snow in many parts of New England, it was only one day away from the Chinese New Year Day of 2013. From February 10 to 16, many celebrations of Chinese New Year were canceled due to poor traffic conditions caused by the heavy snowfall. However, there were a few events went ahead as scheduled. Thanks to some outstanding photographers, the images and the spirit of people celebrating the arrival of Year of Snake were captured with their DSLRs and with their tireless determination to preserve the precious memories.
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    Folk dance at NCLS’ Chinese New Year celebration. (photo by Wei Tang)
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  • Sidney Friedman’s 23 Predictions for 2013

    Online PR News – 24-December-2012 –Chicago, IL — Bedbugs in Boston? Monsoon in Montana? What will occur in the year ahead? One person, Sidney Friedman, may actually have the prescience to know.

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  • Thoughts After Sandy – What Should We Eat in Emergency?

    By Lin Kong, Master of Nutrition Science (from linjoyfulbite.wordpress.com)


    		 How did you go through Sandy in the past two days? Being so lucky that no power outage happened to me on Monday, I just curled up in my coach and watched 3 movies. Obviously I was not prepared at all-no water was stored and I had only 3 cans of bean at home. Although I was lucky enough to be unaffected by the hurricane this time, the absence of coworkers the next day and the sad stories on the news made me think-what should we prepare before the crisis to carry us and our family through?
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  • By Publishing Pictures of Asian Apple Theft Suspects, Main Stream Media Raised Suspicion of Racist Bias

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    In an article titled Malden Man, Others Arrested Stealing Apples published on October 18, 2012 on Malden Patch, names, addresses and pictures of five Asian suspects arrested earlier that week in New Hampshire were made public on patch.com. This report as you may expect immediately received multiple anti-minority and anti-immigrant comments, and some vicious comments had to be removed.
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  • Pictures and Poem of Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge by a Painter

    By Sophia Yee, painter

    I took these pictures recently at the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord Mass. it’s a very beautiful place: the sunset, sunrise, birds, wild flowers, ducks, herons and so on.

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  • Eric Kester: That Speech for Fifth Grade Class President

    By Eric Kester, author of That Book About Harvard

    My fellow 5th Grade-icans,

    I am not running for class president because I have a bigger baseball card collection than the other candidates — which I do — but because I am a patriot and I love my class in a totally non-cootie related way. We were once the greatest class in the entire school, and we still are because the principal looks down on us and smiles. He loves our class, I love our class and we are crazy awesome, so keep that in mind while I now explain why we suck so hard.

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  • Getting Down to the Business of Business – Best Investment You Can Make with $15

    By Stephanie Chan, Acton-Boxborough Regional High School

    One business question for you: What can you buy for $15? For this investment of $15, you can create a business empire because this down payment is for education in basic business principles. The New England Chinese Information and Networking Association, or NECINA, offers a uniquely structured class for high school and college students. The membership fee to join NECINA is $15, and the YES (Youth Entrepreneurship Services) program is free with membership.
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    (L to R) Dr. Daryl Luk, Stephanie Chan and her parents (photos by David Li).
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  • Selected Poems by Tom Gee

    By Tom Gee，Translated by Nancy Lamb Fray

    羊 城 秋 思    一 九 八 五

         穆 穆 黄 花 墓，巍 巍 镇 海 楼。 云 涛 生 碧 树，船 舰 断 江 流。

         城 廓 变 今 古，人 民 有 乐 忧 ， 一 轮 珠 海 月，几 度 汉 时 秋。

    Thoughts of Guangzhou in Autumn 1985

    Yellow Flower Cemetery is so peaceful; Zhen Hai tower is so majestic.
    Emerald trees emerge through billowing clouds; numerous vessels float on the river, almost blocking the flowing water.
    The city has changed a lot throughout history; the people remain, some happy, some sad.
    A bright moon shines above Pearl River and the sea.
    I wonder how many autumn seasons have passed since the Han Dynasty.

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