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...This is a great event,” said Wei R. Chen, father of Jason Y. Chen ’09 and an Oklahoma resident. “We like the environment and the history here at Harvard and enjoyed getting the chance to visit the campus...
...China bashers in Congress. "By 2010 China will have almost twice the number of submarines - not the same capability, but almost twice the number of submarines - as the United States," Rep. Tom Allen, D-Maine, warned at a recent House Budget Committee hearing. Senator James Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, said at a recent Senate Armed Services Committee hearing that during the 1990s, Beijing's military procurement "increased by 1,000 percent...
...State legislators agree. More and more have introduced or passed laws to mandate that doctors and hospitals educate expectant parents about the possibility of cord-blood donation. Doctors can now treat some 70 diseases using stem cells harvested from cord blood, and states including Oklahoma, Michigan and Arkansas are considering bills to fund the establishment of additional local public cord-blood banks and collection centers. "Ideally, we want people to see this as a public service akin to blood or organ donation," says Oklahoma state senator Jay Paul Gumm, who has sponsored such legislation. "Something that they automatically think...
...Even better, no one saw this coming; last year, the Hornets didn't even have a winning record, and for much of the two previous seasons, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, they played most of their games in Oklahoma City...
...moved the team from Charlotte after years of fighting the city for a new arena (in early 2005, Shinn bought Wooldridge's stake in the franchise). The team struggled to draw fans in the Crescent City, and after just three seasons Katrina forced the Hornets to fly off to Oklahoma City. The Bees returned to town this past summer, but the roller coaster had crushed the team's already shaky connection with the city...