and problem-solving skills-all of which are critical for a 1st-century workforce. When parents engage in play with their children, it builds a wall against the harmful effects of all kinds of stress, including poverty, the academy says. In the pediatricians’ view. essentially...
From the minute the previous president flouted public health guidelines by calling the virus “Chinese,” I knew, as so many Asian American Pacific Islanders knew, that a lot of ignorant people would blame anyone who looks remotely Chinese for a pandemic that has by now killed more Ameri...
Hispanics 16.3%, Blacks 12.6%, Asians 4.8 %, American Indians and Alaska Natives 0.9%, and Native Hawaii and other Pacific Islanders 0.2%. 2. The most densely populated region is the northeastern area, including parts of New England, the Mid Atlantic and Mid West. The size of th...
the 1952 U.S. Census reported only 500,000 Asian Americans living in the entire country-less than one-tenth of one percent of the American population. With most Asians and Pacific Islanders concentrated in urban ghettoes, ethnic enclaves, and the islands of Hawaii, they were virtually invisible...
Yap islanders would travel 250 miles to a neighboring island called Palau to quarry the limestone and bring it back to Yap. They would send a team of many people to that far island, quarry the rock in giant slabs, and bring it back on wooden boats. Imagine bringing a multi-thousand ...