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...Tuyen said she'll miss the boy but adds that any day a child is adopted is a special day at the orphanage. "We are glad that he's adopted. He's very clever and I hope he has a good life," she said. "We just hope he will return to visit...
...boy's main caretaker at the orphanage, Ms. Bui Thi Thanh Tuyen, said there was a reason that Pax - usually known as an exceptionally cheerful child - was caught off guard Thursday: wasn't actually told by the staff that he was being adopted that day. "We did not say anything to him, afraid we might put pressure on him and more frightened," Tuyen said. "We just told him that we are taking him out. You are going to play outside - play with a mother and father...
...only because he was not Tung-and because he was a local boy made good-Tsang came into office with much goodwill. But his first two years as Chief Executive were marked more by what he could not accomplish than what he did. In 2005, he was unable to push through a limited set of political reforms that would have increased the size of the body that picks the Chief Executive and added 10 seats to the legislature. The proposals were blocked by democratic lawmakers who felt the changes didn't go far enough and who objected, also...
...first years of World War II, the U.S. was loath to engage the Nazis in a foreign war. It wasn't until that era's "9/11 moment"-the attack on Pearl Harbor-that the U.S. woke up and realized there was a terrible war of civilizations going on. But, boy, when you did wake up, you didn't go to sleep again. In Britain we were being slaughtered, and we were mighty thankful to see the Yanks occupying our countryside, I can tell you. Thank God there were no Kinsleys around wanting to bring the boys home when the going...
Hofstadter's unique intellectual makeup is rooted in his childhood. His father was Robert Hofstadter, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1961. As a boy, Hofstadter was fascinated by visual and conceptual loops: feedback, self-reference, recursiveness, anything that curved back on itself in an unexpected way. He provides several examples in I Am a Strange Loop (which is, among many other things, an intellectual autobiography). In the comic strip Nancy, Sluggo has a dream about a dreaming Sluggo, who is also dreaming of Sluggo, and so on in an infinite chain. The girl on the Morton...