of those who identified themselves as Chinese Americans on the survey are citizens.[15] Secretary of Energy Steven Chu is among the several Chinese Americans to have won the Nobel Prize. The others areTsung-dao Lee, Samuel C. C. Ting, Daniel Chee Tsui, Chen Ning Yang, Roger Y. Tsienand Charles K. Kao. Building Western half of the Transcontinental railroad Building levees in the Sacramento River Delta Chinese American food Technological innovation and entrepreneurship Introducing Chinese and East Asian culture to America, such as Buddhism, Taoism, and Kung fu 2001 survey of Americans' attitudes toward Asian Americans and Chinese Americans indicated that one fourth of the respondents had somewhat or very negative attitude toward Chinese Americans in general
Kroner went on to assure the flood victims that his government would be with them for the long term, stating that "everything we can do and everything Louisiana wants us to do, we are ready to do." Mr. Kroner also suggested one telling reason for this extraordinary willingness to help: The Netherlands owed it to New Orleans-for more than half a century. On January 31, 1953 an unrelenting gale pushed fierce North Sea waters across a quarter-million acres of his country, leveling dikes, levees, and thousands of homes while killing 2,000 residents. Soon thereafter, Dutch officials requested and received aid and technical assistance from their counterparts in New Orleans, which resulted in the construction of a new system of water pumps that have since protected the coun- try from similarly destructive floods. One wonders why it seems that the same lev- els of support for New Orleans provided by officials of a foreign government never came from the city's own national government
payments.* As he grew old, Rossignol retired to his country home at Juvisy though he reportedly continued to perform his special magic to the end of his life. His last days were brightened by an unmistakable demonstration of royal esteem: the Sun King made a detour in a progress back to Fon-tainebleau to visit him at Juvisy—this in an age when courtiers vied for the privilege of removing the king's pajamas at grand and petit levees each morning! Rossignol died soon after, in December of 1682, only a few days short of his 83rd birthday on January 1. * One story about Rossignol should be deflated, however. This is that his solutions were made "in a fashion so marvelous to his contemporaries that the device with which a lock is opened when the key has been lost is still called in French a rossignol." While the fact of the current usage is true, its implied origin is false. Unfortunately for so
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