Word: angele
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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...
...Visitors to Angel Island will be able to see some of the 200 Chinese poems that were painstakingly carved into the wooden walls, and listen to Cantonese and English recordings of the fraught verses. "Don't say that everything within is Western-style," wrote one detainee. "Even if it is built of jade, it has turned into a cage." Added another: "Imprisoned in the wooden building day after day/ My freedom is withheld; how can I bear to talk about it?/ I look to see who is happy but they only sit quietly...
...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...
...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...