Word: nguyen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nguyen, the son of a lieutenant commander in the South Vietnamese Army, already has decided to matriculate at Harvard next September and study biochemistry. His teachers back home call him a scientific prodigy...
...weren't allowed to leave legally," Nguyen begins. "If we had been caught, they would have put us in jail and taken all our belongings. After crossing the border, we went to Thailand and stayed in refugee camps there[for a year], and then to Indonesia and Singapore...
Despite his year in the detention camps, Nguyen continued his education, concentrating mainly on learning English, reading "everything I got my hands on." He points out that in the process of reading many books, he also has broadened his education and learned many other topics besides English...
...Nguyen's mother, Kieu Huynh, is now studying English, and works at various part-time jobs. "It's tough for older people to learn new languages. My sister [Mail] is younger than me so it was easier for her to learn English. She speaks better English than...
...father, Tot Nguyen, was killed in the Vietnam...