Earlier this month I was invited to give an introductory overview presentation and a demonstration of Taijiquan at a high school in central NJ to help celebrate the Chinese New Year. Below is a slightly modified version of that presentation. Although much of the material in this article is already contained in earlier articles published […]
Archive for February 2008
Executive Order 11246: Implications for Asian Americans
February 2008
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What is Executive Order 11246? Executive Order (EO) 11246 (see, e.g., http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_11246) was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on 9/24/65 that required Equal Employment Opportunity. The Order states that “It is the policy of the Government of the United States to provide equal opportunity in Federal employment for all qualified persons, to prohibit discrimination […]
Making Sense of the Price of Gasoline
What are the reasons for the huge profits of the big U.S. oil companies in 2007, and are they justifiable? We have probably all heard of the huge profits that the big U.S. oil companies made in 2007. For example, the 2007 profits of the big five oil companies in the U.S. are: ExxonMobil – […]