Location --

 Brookline, MA, U.S.A.

Background --

 training, physics:     high-energy, experimental
 practice, engineering: software, electronic, mechanical, manufacturing

Projects --

 Original articles --
   Polychlorinated naphthalene (PCN): uses, hazards and regulation
   Halocarbon: origins, chemical families, uses and hazards
   Yu Dongyue: Chinese Tiananmen Square protester imprisoned for 17 years
   College tuition: long-term and recent price trends in U.S. college education
   Socialized medicine: a pejorative phrase for public health care, its history
   Transportation safety: automobile and air accident rates in the U.S. compared
   .NET Remoting: a Microsoft technology for interprocess communication (stub)
   Digital Opportunity Investment Trust: proposal for digital education grants
   Isabelle: colliding beam accelerator partly built at Brookhaven, cancelled 1983
   Transit fares: trends for North American rapid transit systems, 1955 to 2005
   Natural gas prices: United States production and price trends, 1930 to 2005
   Cross-Harbor Rail Tunnel: proposed tunnel between Jersey City and Brooklyn
 Stub expansions --
   Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA): law, regulations and PCB remediation
   Airframe: mechanical structure of an aircraft, history and design challenges
   Citrix Systems: information and references on software products and acquisitions
   GoToMyPC: Web-hosted remote access service, attacked in a 2006 patent lawsuit
 Additions and references --
   Profumo affair: recalled from my early adulthood
   Freund's adjuvant: about use in experimental treatment of diabetes
   Omaha Public Schools: about proposed district division and demographics
   Talk:Qigong: notes on traditions and on translation of the word to English
   Web Service Message Queue (WSMQ): similarity to WCF functions is not clear
   Berlin, New Hampshire: population trends, 1830 to 2000, U.S. Census
   Subcomandante Marcos: political and philosophical writings, bibliography