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New York City Tourist Sites
热度 2 何毓琦 2013-9-26 22:49
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求, please read my 公告栏 first) . Visiting two tourist sites in New York City: Ground Zero (the 9/11 memorial) and the Museum of modern arts There are moments in one’s life that you remember exac ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|9692 次阅读|4 个评论 热度 2
A Curious news story
热度 7 何毓琦 2013-9-20 04:22
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求, please read my 公告栏 first) . The last two days, the Boston media (TV, Radio and Print) featured a “feel good” story about a homeless person who found a backpack on the street with some $42,000 (cash and traveler checks) ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|9454 次阅读|14 个评论 热度 7
I am a lucky guy (II)
热度 5 何毓琦 2013-8-25 10:42
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求, please read my 公告栏 first) . While I am enormously gratified but also a little bit embarrassed when a number of my former students organized a workshop, published a collection of essays at the 2013 IEEE Conf ...
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What if you are involved in an automobile accident in the US
热度 4 何毓琦 2013-8-14 21:30
( For new reader and thosewho request 好友 请求 , please read my 公告 栏 firs t) With increasing Chinese tourists and visitors who have driving licenses to the US it is only a matter of time before they will be involved in an automobile accident. &n ...
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Spying and Surveillance
热度 2 何毓琦 2013-6-8 19:37
Fornew readers and those who request to be “ 好友 good friends” please read my 公告 栏 first. Any modern nation for security reasons engages in gathering intelligence, whether it is against other nations or from her own population. It is a necessa ...
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Why Do I Attend Technical Seminars at My Age?
热度 17 何毓琦 2013-5-10 22:08
( For new reader and those who request 好友 请求 , please read my 公告 栏 firs t) The Boston area has over 80 institutions of higher learning, among the most prominent are Harvard, MIT, Boston University, Northeastern University and Wellesley College. Every day there are &n ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|14039 次阅读|30 个评论 热度 17
An Asian American Experience
何毓琦 2013-5-1 22:50
( For new reader and those who request 好友 请求 , please read my 公告 栏 firs t) May is the Asian American Heritage month in the US. I reproduce here a talk I gave 13 years ago with the above title. It still seemed appropriate today. An Asian American Experience ...
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The IKEA Furniture and Home Furnishing Store
热度 7 何毓琦 2013-4-23 23:31
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求, please read my 公告栏 first) Everyone in the world knows that Warren Buffet and Bill Gates are among the wealthiest person in the world. But I bet few people also know that the owner of IKEA store (I know there is an IKEA store in Beijing an ...
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The Joy and Rewards of Volunteer Work
热度 2 何毓琦 2013-3-27 20:47
Fornew readers and those who request to be “ 好友 good friends” please read my 公告 栏 first. Over the past half a century of living in the US, my wife and I have participated invarious forms of volunteer work in my profession and the community in which welive. R ...
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Pay it Forward
热度 6 何毓琦 2012-12-7 21:40
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求, please read my 公告栏 first) “Payback” is a well–usedEnglish word that has both good ( 回報) andbad connotations ( 報復 ). Lesser known and usedis the phrase “pay it forward http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_it_forward ...
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