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I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.

There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system.

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The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.

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So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out.

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I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

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Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.

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Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way.

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I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

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Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.

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I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent - I remember this number - one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will - some of them will disappear.

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