When we came to visit, the two bonded over Jock Hobbs and David Kirk. Although I’m not sure how interested Ichiro really was in the national game. His real heroes weren’t All Blacks but epidemiologists like Daniel Gajdusek and Richard Doll (the man who proved that cigarettes cause lung cancer). Ichiro was the ultimate nerd. He rented an extra room in our flat to store his alphabetically arranged scientific papers, manga and novels. As our rotting five-bedroom bungalow shook to The Cure and Prince, he tacked Bach and Hemingway posters to the walls. After late-night ward rounds at Wellington Hospital, he pored over extramural university papers on statistics, economics and the philosophy of aesthetics. His idea of relaxation was to smoke a pipe and listen to John Coltrane LPs.
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month celebrates the contributions of one of the fastest-growing groups of people living in the United States. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders contain multitudes. They are a global community with a homegrown and unique perspective on America.
Their diversity expands continents and demographics. The hopes and dreams of the AAPI community are America at its finest, and its people and traditions are those that are tightly stitched into the fabric of the nation. The American dream is alive and well within the AAPI community, and we ve gathered so many of those dreams here throughout this inspiring list of individuals.