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Linsanity Strikes China, But Could Chinese Basketball Ever Produce a Jeremy Lin?

By Hannah Beech | February 15, 2012

Just typ

Since Feb. 4, New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin has been the talk of sports.
Full name: Jeremy Shu-How Lin

Birthday: Aug. 23, 1988

Firsts: First American-born NBA player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent. Graduated from Harvard (economics), first player in Ivy League history to record 1,450 points, 450 rebounds, 400 assists and 200 steals.

Numbers: 6-3 guard. Wears No. 17. Hit the winning buzzer-beater three-pointer Tuesday.

Background: Son of Shirley and Gie-Ming. Has a younger brother, Joseph, and an older brother, Jos

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去年暑期汉译英的 Penjing: the Chinese Art of Bonsai 一书由 Better Links Press 出版了。印刷精美至极！下面是其封面，请欣赏！

More on 'hurt feelings'

By James Fallows

Dec 10 2008, 4:20 AM ET

Now Presenting: The Nominees for the 2011 Word of the Year

January 6, 2012

By Ben Zimmer

Greetings from Portland, Oregon, where the American Dialect Society is having its annual conference. As chair of the New Words Committee, I had the honor of presiding over the nominating session for the Word of the Year. On Friday evening, winners will be selected from the different categories, and then nominations will be made for the overall category of Word of the Year. What do you think the category winners should be, and what should be crowned the Word of 2011?

One winter semester during college in upstate New York., I took an 8 AM history class to fulfill a requirement.  It was hard to get up for that class, but about 15 of us met 3 times a week to brave the cold winds and trudge to that lecture in a nondescript classroom.

The professor for the class was an odd fellow.  He had flaming red hair, usually looking slept on, and wore galoshes with one pantleg in and one out.  He would creep shyly into the room wearing his hooded winter coat , once not even removing the hood during the lecture.  He was terribly ill at ease with the class and clutched the lecturn barely looking up at all through his gold rimmed glasses at his students. 

I felt that I needed to do something to stem the boredom that woud ensue in his lecture, s

Nature | Column: World View

Cultural history holds back Chinese research

Confucius and Zhuang have produced a culture in China that values isolation and inhibits curiosity. Neither is good for science, says Peng Gong