EXTRA! EXTRA! Reading is a gift to the mind.

Reading is also a lift to the spirit. You bet it is not untrue! I may be addicted in reading to be a full man or a guy with a lively mind to be active all the time.

Washington Post is a newspaper dedicated to thoughtful readers and I like it much for my mindful action to stay ahead with timely information and articles by intellectuals such as Henry Kissinger as I read his article several days ago.

www.reuters.com published statement by Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Laureate in Economics dated August 21, 2009.

USATday, August 21, 2009 page 3A:

Low Key Party for Hawaii 5-0: Islanders strike easy balance for those still uneasy over statehood.

The United States officially apologized for the overthrow of the Kingdom in a bill signed by President Clinton in 1993 when I was teaching Economics in Beijing from 1993-1996.

The resolution in 1993 did not directly provide for or require any redress for native Hawaiians,it bolstered Hawaiian sovereignty claims. Some faculty members at the University of Hawaii Graduate School are advocating Independence!

As an honorary citizen of Honolulu, Hawaii, I salute Hawaii to be the 50th State in 1959 when I was teaching Economics in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California from 1958-1961 before I accepted an offer to teach in Michigan from 1961-1964 to be back to California to do research at the RAND Corporation from January 1964 to September 1965 and then came back to Washington to compile a Directory for the National Science Foundation to encourage American scientists to contact scientists in China for scientific exchanges. Such Directory was published by Hoover Institution of Stanford University in 1971.

The Washington Times,August 21, 2009 on page 8C

Top notch tutor: Olympian Silver Medalist Zhang is workijng with Hall of Famer Lou Duva with a photo of the two as published for readers.

Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao looking forward for another weekend to read at Borders and to blog some jokes again.

Friday, August 21, 2009 at 1.46 p.m.