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...these groups has experienced radically different immigration histories and trajectories. Chinese and Japanese have the longest history in America, with workers beginning to arrive around the turn of the twentieth century to work on America’s transcontinental railroads. Many Southeast Asians arrived post-1965 as refugees from Vietnam and other crisis countries; many Indians have arrived in recent years to work in information technology . Thus, we see a wide range across the spectrum of socioeconomic attainment and acculturation, the scope of which often becomes troublingly lost in categorizations of Asian America. In particular, success myths of what Asian...
...Sturgess, “Across the Universe,” its characters, the 1960s, and the Beatles themselves all share this progression. “The film sort of expands off of the innocence of the sixties, and the bubblegum sort of years…and then as the Vietnam War was introduced, the characters become more politically weighted, as did the music,” he said. “As the characters change and start becoming more experimental, so did the world around them, and so did the music of the Beatles...
...prices to over $80 per barrel, and governments are nationalizing major fields from Russia to Venezuela. At the same time, as offshore technology improves, oil firms can hunt in deeper, tougher waters, like the Timor Gap between Australia and East Timor. So the region has exploded with oil fever. Vietnam plans to explore in seven offshore blocks, Malaysia this summer launched the deepwater Kikeh field, and Indonesia expects production from its vast Cepu oil field to start next year. East Timor could earn at least $10 billion from the Gap, and Burma has discovered offshore fields that could contain...
...Marines to get on and off the aircraft is lowered. That doesn't satisfy Jones. "I just fundamentally believe than an assault aircraft that goes into hot landing zones should have a nose-mounted gun," Jones told TIME. "I go back to my roots a little bit," the Vietnam veteran says. "I just like those kinds of airplanes to have the biggest and best gun we can get, and that to me was a requirement." He doesn't think much of the V-22's current weapon: "A rear-mounted gun is better than...
Helicopter expert Rex Rivolo, who called the decision to deploy the V-22 without proven autorotation capability "unconscionable" in that confidential 2003 Pentagon study, declined to be interviewed. But in his report, Rivolo noted that up to 90% of the helicopters lost in the Vietnam War were in their final approach to landing when they were hit by enemy ground fire. About half of those were able to autorotate safely to the ground, "thereby saving the crews," Rivolo wrote. "Such events in V-22 would all be fatal...