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	Un-American Airports AsianWeek readers will recall my international incident in 2001. In my haste, I had forgotten all about a little pocketknife in my bag as I went through a security check at Hong Kong’s big convention center. I was there to cover two major speeches by Chinese leader Jiang Zemin and former President Bill Clinton. But inadvertently, my knife became the story. As I walked up to the metal detector, I realized I had my trusty Sears special and courteously showed it to the guard. It was a key chain — complete with a laser light... FULL STORY...		The Greening of Asian Pacific America (Feature) First and Only APA Congresswoman Dies (in National News) APAs Struggle To Fit Into the Landscape of Progressive Politics (in Bay Area News) Fashion and Compassion (in Business) The Ultimate Sports Fan (in Sports) Out of Hiding (in A&E) Emil Amok: Un-American Airports (in Opinion)

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Voices from the Community: Carrying On the Work and Life of Patsy Mink Bay Area attorney remembers the life and times of the first APA woman to serve in the House By John Trasviña Special to AsianWeek  “We have a lot of work to do.”  Those were U.S. Representative Patsy Mink’s, D-Hawai‘i words to me after I addressed the banquet of the International Association of Korean Lawyers meeting in Honolulu in August. Now, barely two months later, Mink has passed away and her work remains our work...

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