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From 1910 to 1940, a million immigrants seeking a better life in the U.S., most of them Chinese, were processed on Angel Island, a tiny dot of land in the San Francisco Bay, roughly 45 minutes from San Francisco. In 1970, the Angel Island Immigration Station was scheduled for demolition, but a California state park ranger named Alexander Weiss made a remarkable discovery: hand-carved fragments of Chinese poetry hiding under layers of graffiti and plaster in the walls of the derelict barracks. This find stopped the wrecking ball and began a decades-long campaign to turn the site into...
...welcome was much warmer at Angel Island's East Coast counterpart, the fabled Ellis Island, where European immigrants were processed within hours. "Whenever people talk about American immigration, they talk about Ellis Island," says exhibit designer Daniel Quan, whose own father passed through Angel Island in 1926. "The country has not celebrated immigration on an equal basis for everyone...
...complete processes that are incredibly complex, Obama shows a remarkable grasp of the reality in which the world works. Reforms in education and energy won't happen overnight, and it's great to see a President who understands that getting things in motion is the first step. Shawna Browning, Angel Fire...
...possible," indie mogul Harvey Weinstein told the New York Post. "I hope our children get educated about the Holocaust, so it will be 'Never again.' " Death-camp literature is such a reliable attention getter that a few writers have invented memoirs. This week Berkley Books canceled publication of Angel at the Fence when its author, Herman Rosenblat, acknowledged that the story of meeting his wife at Buchenwald was not true. Nonetheless, a movie version of the book is going forward...
...been so well received that scores of schools around the country have contacted the students' company about designing their own iPhone apps. (Yes, Beykpour and another boyhood pal, Joe Bernstein, have already launched a start-up in San Francisco, called TerriblyClever, without any angel or venture capital funding. And yes, it's already profitable, Beykpour said...