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父亲的愛与我 Parent-Child Relationship (轉载)
何毓琦 2009-1-4 22:05
( For new reader and those who request 好友请求, please read my 公告栏 firs t) Our family friend, Linda Wang 陈永秀, is an accomplished artist and novelist. During our recent visit to CA, she showed me a recent article she wrote for ...
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Family Reunion, Half Moon Bay, California
何毓琦 2008-12-29 05:25
Fornew readers and those who request to be “ 好友 good friends”, please read my 公告 栏 first. During the real estate boom of the last quarter of the 20 th century, some US real estate “genius” invented the concept of developing resort properties u ...
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美東北部大雪, 去加州三代一齐度假
何毓琦 2008-12-22 22:28
Fornew readers and those who request to be “ 好友 good friends”, please read my 公告 栏 first. 这週末波城三天内二次大雪 ( 请看照片, and compare with the same in http://www.sciencenet.cn/m/user_content.aspx?id=16218 ) ...
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NY Times View of China in Global Economic Slowdown
何毓琦 2008-12-19 21:56
Fornew readers and those who request to be “ 好友 good friends”, please read my 公告 栏 first. Notes added 12/21/08. Since the NY Times site is currently blocked, I wish to bring to readers' attention another Thomas Friedman column this mor ...
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美国2008 感恩節(Thanksgiving 2008)
何毓琦 2008-11-27 06:46
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) In 2001 I “retired”from the Harvard faculty. At the retirement dinner givenby my school, I gave the following “thank you” speech. Seven plus years later on thanksgiving day 2008, ...
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Wall street financial crisis hits home
何毓琦 2008-11-21 19:16
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) I use to say that America is spending her children’s future and they will have to pay for our sins in their time. Little did I imagine that the time we have to pay is NOW and not in our children’s fu ...
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Academic Travels – then (1960s) and now
何毓琦 2008-11-20 00:00
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) I mentioned earlier that one of the side benefits of academia is the opportunity to travel all over the world combing business with pleasure (For example, see http://www.sciencene ...
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Professorial Retirement – European Style
何毓琦 2008-11-17 18:34
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) (For the past four days I was in Delft, the Netherlands taking part in a celebratory event) In the US, as the saying goes –“professors are dime a dozen”. When a professor retires, the department may ...
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The rich are different from you and me -F. Fitzgerald
何毓琦 2008-11-16 01:08
In my blog article about Harvard, one reader commented that in 2001, the year I retired, the Harvard endowment stood at 19 billion. Yet today, eight years later, it stood at 37 billion according to Wikipedia. He sounded incredulous. So I quoted the above verse and let me explain by way of two ...
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Harvard Tightens Her Belt in Recession
何毓琦 2008-11-11 22:46
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) (Note added 12/4/08. Today's Boston Globe reported that Harvard endowment lost 8.1 billion dollars in the past four months) These days in the US you cannot turn on the TV or radio with ...
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