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...America, and she finally left China in 1996 to study immunology at the University of Iowa. There, in the American Midwest, Li regained her voice?and discovered it was in English. Despite her initially limited command of the written language, she eventually dropped her plans to become a scientist and earned writing degrees from Iowa's prestigious graduate program. She soon began publishing astonishingly mature short stories in magazines like The New Yorker and earned a $200,000 publishing deal from Random House at the age of 31. Now she has released her first book, a short-story collection titled...
...Like the author herself, Li's characters seem free to reinvent themselves only when they've left China behind. In the title story, a retired scientist named Mr. Shi goes to the U.S. to visit his newly divorced adult daughter and discovers, as he hears her speaking to a man in English over the phone, that she has become someone else. (When he finds out his daughter's new boyfriend is from Romania, Mr. Shi tries to stay positive: "At least the man grew up in a communist country.") In their reborn American selves, father and daughter achieve a level...
...Power Politics In his column "Be Careful What You Wish For," Michael Elliott referred to political scientist Michael Mandelbaum's argument that the U.S. has promoted global security by reducing the threat of world war [Jan. 23]. In quoting Mandelbaum's theories, Elliott evokes the prominent role of the U.S. during the past few decades in the peacemaking processes around the world. Elliott deplores the loneliness of the U.S. in its quest for a steadier Kosovo or Bosnia, denouncing the lack of Europe's commitment. Elliott may have forgotten that in both places, Kosovo and Bosnia, American and European soldiers...
...interesting political note: Eric Rignot, the lead author of the Greenland study and an accompanying report in Science magazine, works for NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (the glaciers? speedup was detected with a satellite). Just a couple of weeks ago, another NASA scientist named James Hansen claimed he?d been silenced by the agency for speaking out about evidence for global warming; the resulting furor led the NASA official who was involved to resign. Hansen?s commentary on the Greenland result appears here. And when Rignot was asked yesterday whether anyone at the agency had tried to shut...
...that release, the study’s co-author, nutritional scientist Daniel J. Hoffman, warned that weight-gain could lead to diminished self-esteem, which in turn may harm academic performance...