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A little over halfway through Swimming Back to Trout River, readers encounter a chapter titled “The Improviser’s Guide to Untranslatable Words” in which they are introduced to several Chinese metaphysical terms. The first, yuanfen, is a subtler counterpart to the concept of fate. Rather than certain actions or outcomes being predestined and set in stone, yuanfen more loosely and fluidly binds people and events together in a meaningful coincidence, perhaps only for a fleeting period of time. The second term, zaohua, refers to an inherent force of progress that flows through the world, c...

Alexis Burling April 25, 2021Updated: April 25, 2021, 8:06 pm Countless generations of Asians and Pacific Islanders have immigrated to America, enriched its culture and history, and helped make the country what it is today. Their stories are invaluable. In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, here are three promising debuts from Asian American writers, coming out in May. ‘Swimming Back to Trout River’ By Linda Rui Feng “Swimming Back to Trout River” by Linda Rui Feng Photo: Simon & Schuster A well-known concept in Chinese culture, yuanfen describes “an...

A massive rally in miami, florida as more than 75,000 people are expected to gather for trayvon martin. the 17 year old's parents will also be there. this comes one day after hundreds of demonstrators marched with reverend al sharpton and jesse jackson in sanford, florida right where he was killed. and he was allegedly shot by george zimmerman who claims he did it in self-defense. he has not been arrested. >> alisyn: in florida, the families of two young scuba divers can breathe a sigh of relief. amazingly, they spotted 18-year-old nick allen and 20-year-old nathan mathews floating them in the...

steven moore and robert reich, labor secretary during the clinton administration. currently he's a professor of public policy at the university of california at berkeley and author of "aftershock, the next economy in america's future" now out in paper back. ali, what happened today? >> reporter: we had a situation where it's not just fear we were talking about. this was actual fact. we started this morning with slow bad markets out of europe. then before the markets opened we got this report from morgan stanley which talked about slow growth around the world, telling us things we alr...

central bank and the fed would have to get further involved in this economy. now, you know all week we've been talking about rick perry saying it would be treasonous for the fed to get involved. while his comments may have been misinformed it represents a view in america that fed should do no more work in stimulating this economy. so now we have investors saying we need more investment. you got the morgan stanley saying we do. and you've got a lot of people in america saying don't do it. so we're at an impasse. investors said let's get our money out of there. they put it into bonds a...