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...single meal if I lived nearby. (The answer, 13 times: “Yes, in the room next to yours.”) She seemed beyond conversation: ailing, 80, a member of old uppercrust Argentine high society. She could not have been more unlike my 20-year-old, Asian-American, middle-class self. This woman hobnobbed with European royalty and dined with Pavarotti in her day; I grew up pretending to be royalty (Cinderella) and dining on Publix chicken nuggets...
RURAL SOUTH The life span of low-income black female residents is 13 years shorter than that of Asian-American women...
...HAWAII Residents of D.C. have the shortest life expectancy nationwide, at 72 years. Hawaiians have the longest, at 80 years NEW JERSEY Asian-American women living in Bergen County lead the nation in longevity typicallyreaching...
...have-nots—the study suggests that there are in fact “eight Americas” divided by race, class, and geography. One of the eight Americas, the 10 million Asians living in the country, “have one of the highest levels of life expectancy on record,” Murray said in a statement Monday. The life expectancy of Asian-Americans is 85.3 years, higher than any single country’s. “But tens of millions of other Americans have levels more typical of middle-income or low-income developing countries...
DIED. Mako, 72, Oscar-nominated actor who, as co-founder of East West Players--the first Asian-American drama troupe--was hailed as "the godfather of Asian-American theater"; of esophageal cancer; in Somis, Calif. Born Makoto Iwamatsu in Kobe, Japan, he came to the U.S. as a teen and discovered acting. Roles for Asians then were demeaningly comic, written almost exclusively in pidgin English. But Mako's portrayal of Chinese coolie Po-han in 1966's The Sand Pebbles, although in broken English, rose above stereotype and won him an Oscar nomination...