Andrew To
Andrew To
Andrew Tois a member of the Wong Tai Sin District Council, Hong Kong. Of Hakka ancestry, he is the former chairman of League of Social Democrats from 2010 to 2011, succeeding Wong Yuk-man. His wife, Jackie Hung, was a leader of Civil Human Rights Front and Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese...
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We were blown away by the size, age and diversity of the deep-water corals we saw during our 2002 Davidson cruise. Indeed, the discoveries we made during that cruise prompted members of the public to propose that Davidson Seamount be protected as part of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. We wanted to go back to learn why so many extraordinary corals thrive there and to determine their age and growth patterns.
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What I find interesting about it is the richness of the archive and the challenge of figuring out how the language as it was documented in 1905 is similar to or different from the language we can hear now. The project is trying to pull all of that into one big picture of a single language.
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I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time.
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The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest.
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Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.
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I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.
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Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.
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Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.
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Labor is getting more expensive and technology is getting cheaper.
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Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor ...
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The United States has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world, which does not leave much room to maneuver. But it also offers investors the greatest access to information and the ability to execute trades quickly and efficiently. So it is a mixed bag of opportunity.
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Obviously the shift to gas and the need for large amounts of gas in the United States is going to be a major focus of attention on the part of producers.
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You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.
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The extent of Apple's pre-announcement and the laundry list of problems that the company cited lead us to believe that its woes are as much company specific as they are industry related and the demand for products is just not there.