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Chinaâs Crackdown on Muslims Extends to a Resort Island
The Utsuls of Hainan island were once celebrated by the government for their links to the larger Muslim world. Not anymore.
A mosque in Sanya, a city on the southern Chinese island of Hainan.Credit.Keith Bradsher/The New York Times
SANYA, China â The call to prayer still echoes through the alleys of Sanyaâs nearly 1,000-year-old Muslim neighborhood, where crescent-topped minarets rise above the rooftops. The governmentâs crackdown on the tiny, deeply pious community in this southern Chinese city has been subtle.
Signs on shops and homes that read âAllahu akbarâ â âGod is greatestâ in Arabic â have been covered with foot-wide stickers promoting the âChina Dream,â a nationalistic official slogan. The Chinese characters for halal, meaning permissible under Islam, have been removed from restaurant signs and menus. The authorities have closed two Islamic schools and have
Will Anderson, Claudio Rattes and Keena Thomas were appointed to the
BioTechnical Institute of Maryland.
Coming from government, business and education, the new board members bring years of experience and leadership to help address the rapidly increasing workforce demands facing the life sciences industry due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Anderson, former executive director of Economic & Workforce Development for Baltimore County, is currently the managing director of the impact principals, an economic, workforce and community development consultancy that works with Fortune 500 corporations, foundations, social enterprises, and emerging businesses.
He brings a wealth of experience from leading numerous public, private, and nonprofit organizations across the state, including a decade spent as chief of technology and business development at the Maryland Business Roundtable for Education.
PBS Airdate: February 6, 2007
NARRATOR: 1939: A chemist at a midwestern paint company makes a startling discovery, one that could improve the health of millions of people. The company wants him to stick to making paint, but this man has always gone his own way. He was the grandson of Alabama slaves, yet he went on to become one of America s great scientists.
HELEN PRINTY (Julian Laboratories Chemist) : He had to fight to overcome the odds of being a black man in America.
JOHN KENLY SMITH (Historian) : The chemical world was a club, and outsiders were not really all that welcome.
PETER WALTON (Julian Laboratories Employee) : We lived, for the most part, in a highly stressed, very competitive environment.
Blog: Teacher Tips: Keeping Students Engaged in Virtual Math Class
As an avid reader, writer, and English teacher, nothing used to scare me more than the possibility of having to cover an absent colleague’s math class. Like a fish out of water, my literacy-geared mind simply cannot adapt to the math world. Now that we educators have moved into the virtual realm of instruction, at least for the time being, I am even more in awe of how my math teacher counterparts are able to reach their students when it comes to such complex skills. It goes without saying that, for students like myself who find math to be difficult to begin with, they must be finding online math instruction to be