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...Having arrived in Baghdad only three days ago, Orion Jenks has missed all that bonding. Now he is preparing for his maiden trip outside the wire. Yesterday Jenks spent Thanksgiving away from home for the first time, eating rubbery turkey with a bunch of strangers in a chow hall decorated with the corny Pilgrim motif of a kindergarten. The battalion required all soldiers at the base to speak to their families for five minutes on the phone, but the call only added to Jenks' longing for home. "I was hating life," he says...
...when Alan Chow, founder of Optobionics, began developing the artificial retina that could help some blind people regain sight, bionic technology was mostly considered fantasy. "When we started, what we proposed was such a radically different approach to incurable eye disease that the idea was considered science fiction," says Chow, 50. But with 10 trial operations since 2000, Chow and Optobionics are inching closer to the regulatory nod that would usher their bionic device into the mainstream medical world...
...Tsang's good friend Sammo Hung, then a stuntman at the Shaw Brothers Studio and now the action choreographer for Stephen Chow's anticipated Kung Fu Hustle, who suggested in 1974 that the little man try his hand as a stuntman. (The path from stuntman to industry bigwig is well-trodden in Hong Kong. Along with Hung, both Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan are among the actors who started by taking a few falls.) Tsang, whose father, Tsang Kai-wing, had been a professional footballer in Hong Kong, had himself played for Hong Kong's team at the Asian Youth...
...1960s the Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino reflected Asian Americans at that point” Chow said. According to Chow, the experience of Southern and South-Eastern Asians has become increasingly significant over the past four decades...
...Chow supports configuring Asian- American Studies at Harvard as a subsection of another department, suggesting American History as one possible fit, but citing what she called the conservative nature of Harvard’s history department as a likely hindrance...