These United nation jobs were pretty lucrative. We were paid in American dollars, at rates that would match the sort of pay that an American scientist would expect, and it was...
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Gentleness and eccentricity, - that's how I remember Auntie Pearl.
Actually she had a bad start in life. Her mother wanted this, her first born, to be named Margaret...
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Perhaps I had it luckier than most. Koreans offer a lot to the aged, and since I was already sixty when I first went there and my face was already thoroughly lined they could...
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My tertiary education has been a slow and tedious process, spanning in all some 44 years. It was slow because for the first four years I didn’t understand what learning...
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It was the rhinoceros beetle that took me to the Pacific, though chance and kind friends played their part.
As a topic form my MSc thesis, I had hoped to get something that...
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