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Address: 11122 Bellaire Blvd., Inside C2 Houston, TX 77072 Southern Daily News is published by Southern News Group Daily E-mail: [email protected] Thursday, April 01, 2021| Biden kicks off effort to reshape U.S. economy with infrastructure package (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Wednesday will call for a dramatic and permanent shift in the direction of the U.S. economy with a roughly $2 trillion package to invest in traditional projects like roads and bridges alongside tackling climate change and boosting human services like elder care.

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden holds a meeting on infrastructure with members of Congress in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 4, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo He also aims to put corporate Amer- ica on the hook for the tab, which is expected to grow to a combined $4 trillion once he rolls out the second part of his economic plan in April.

Coupled with his recently enacted $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, Biden’s infrastructure initiative would give the federal government a bigger role in the U.S. economy than it has had in generations, accounting for 20% or more of annual output. cy on infrastructure, his plan is split communities of color or air pollution Better” agenda that the administration “dangerously misguided.” aims to introduce. The White House has The effort, to be announced on that affects Black and Hispanic communities near ports or power plants. said a second legislative package is due Wednesday at an event in Pittsburgh, “We strongly oppose the general within weeks. sets the stage for the next partisan tax increases proposed by the ad- Congress will also be asked to put $400 bil- That package is expected to include an clash in Congress where members ministration which will slow the expansion in health insurance coverage, largely agree that capital investments lion toward expanding access to affordable economic recovery and make the home or community-based care for aging an extension of the expanded child tax are needed but are divided on the total U.S. less competitive globally – benefit, and paid family and medical size and inclusion of programs tradi- Americans and people with disabilities. the exact opposite of the goals of It’s aimed at “underpaid and undervalued” leave, among other efforts aimed at tionally seen as social services. How the infrastructure plan,” Bradley families. to pay for them will be a fractious workers in that industry, who are dispropor- said. tionately women of color. issue in its own right. Global aviation industry seeks House of Representatives Speaker Nancy share of U.S. infrastructure pack- Pelosi has signaled that she hopes to pass Biden is ignoring a campaign promise There is $213 billion provided to build and age retrofit affordable and sustainable homes the infrastructure plan by July 4, though to raise taxes on wealthy individu- The hard part: Biden infrastruc- that timeline could easily slip as Dem- als, at least for now, with none of the along with hundreds of billions to support ture-linked tax hikes face hurdles U.S. manufacturing, bolster the nation’s ocrats race to write the legislation and expected increases in the top marginal in Congress agree on details. rate or capital gains tax. electric grid, enact nationwide high-speed The plan would instead increase the broadband and revamp the nation’s water See more stories systems to ensure clean drinking water. The jockeying has already begun, as corporate tax rate to 28% from 21% allies push for inclusion of their priorities and change the tax code to close The plan includes $621 billion SECOND LEGISLATIVE PACKAGE and Republicans signal early concerns loopholes that allow companies to to rebuild infrastructure, such about the package’s size and scope. move profits overseas, according to a COMING as roads, bridges, highways and Biden is moving forward with the massive 25-page briefing paper released by the ports, and a historic $174 billion Moderate Democrats have said the pack- White House. job and infrastructure effort as he navigates investment in the electric vehi- an ambitious timeline to provide enough age should be more targeted to traditional cle market that sets a goal of a infrastructure projects to attract Republi- The plan would spread the cost for COVID vaccines for all adults by the end of nationwide charging network by May and the deployment of pandemic relief. can votes, seeking a return to bipartisan projects over an eight-year period and 2030. policymaking aims to pay for it all over 15 years, a senior administration official said. The White House is also dealing with a rise In many cases, the White House in the number of migrants at the southern Liberal lawmakers want to use the party’s cast those goals in the language border, the fallout from back-to-back mass slim majorities in Congress to tackle Neil Bradley, executive vice president of addressing economic inequities some of the nation’s biggest problems, and chief policy officer at the nation’s shootings and a looming showdown over born of historic racial discrimina- the Senate filibuster. such as climate change and economic largest trade group, the U.S. Chamber tion, such as spending on inter- inequality, with resources that reflect the of Commerce, said while the organi- state highway developments that size of those challenges. zation shares Biden’s sense of urgen- The plan forms one part of the “Build Back English 星期四 2021年4月1日 Thursday, April 1, 2021 C6

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But Wu’s observations meant the Experimental work in radioactive de- “law” did not hold and she had discov- Trailblazing Nuclear Physicist cay ered parity nonconservation. In 1944, Wu became a research scien- This breakthrough achievement helped tist at Columbia University, where she Wu’s theoretical colleagues win the 1957 joined the Manhattan Project, the top-se- Nobel Prize in Physics, but unfortunate- cret U.S. effort to turn basic research in ly, the Nobel Committee overlooked physics into a new kind of weapon, the Wu’s experimental contribution. atomic bomb. As a team member, Wu helped develop the process for sepa- rating uranium atoms into the charged uranium-235 and uranium-238 isotopes using gaseous diffusion. This work even- tually led to enriched uranium, a critical component for nuclear reactions. The new U.S. postage stamp featuring Wu. (U.S. Postal Service) Wu received many accolades, includ- Encouraged by her college advisor and ing an honorary doctorate at Harvard financially supported by her uncle, Wu in 1974. (Bettmann via Getty Images) booked the month-long steamship trip In addition to her famous parity law re- to the United States in 1936 to pursue search, Wu carried out a series of import- her doctoral education. She arrived in ant experiments in nuclear physics and San Francisco, where she met her future quantum physics. In 1949, she experi- husband, Luke Chia-Liu Yuan, another mentally verified Enrico Fermi’s theory Chien-Shiung Wu, one of the most influential physicist, when he showed her around of beta decay, correcting the discrepan- nuclear physicists of the 20th century. the Radiation Laboratory at the Univer- After World War II, Wu remained at Co- cies between the theory and previous sity of California, Berkeley. Scientists lumbia and focused her research on the inaccurate experimental results and de- Compiled And Edited By John T. Robbins, Southern Daily Editor at the lab had only recently invented the radioactive process of beta decay.. She veloping a universal version of his the- cyclotron, the most advanced instrument investigated beta particles: fast-moving ory. She also proved the quantum phe- On Feb. 11, 2021, the sixth International became a scientific role model for me, for accelerating charged particles in a electrons or positrons emitted from an nomenon relevant to a pair of entangled Day of Women and Girls in Science, the inspiring me to pursue an academic ca- spiral trajectory. atomic nucleus in the radioactive decay photons. U.S. Postal Service will issue a new For- reer in physics and follow her path to Enticed by the atomic nuclei research process. In 1958, Wu was the first Chinese-Amer- ever stamp to honor Chien-Shiung Wu, the U.S.” being done in the lab, Wu abandoned her In the mid-1950s, Wu performed a fa- ican elected to the National Academy of one of the most influential nuclear phys- From China to the US, to pursue original plan to attend the University of mous experiment to test the law of parity Sciences. In 1967, she served as the first icists of the 20th century. physics Michigan and successfully enrolled in conservation. This was a widely accept- female president of the American Physi- A Chinese American woman, Wu per- In 1912, Wu was born in Liuhe in Ji- the physics doctoral program at Berke- ed but unproven principle implying that a cal Society. formed experiments that tested the funda- angsu province, a town about 40 miles ley. physical process and its mirror reflection After her retirement in 1981, Wu dedi- mental laws of physics. In a male-domi- north of Shanghai. Although it was In her graduate research, Wu worked are identical. As proposed by theoretical cated herself to public educational pro- nated field, she won many honors and uncommon in China for girls to attend closely with nuclear scientist Ernest physicists Chen Ning Yang and Tsung- grams in both the United States and awards, including the National Medal of school at that time, her father founded a Lawrence, who had won the Nobel Prize Dao Lee, Wu designed an experiment to China, giving numerous lectures and Science (1975), the inaugural Wolf Prize school for girls where she received her in Physics in 1939, and Emillo Segrè, see if reality matched the theory. working to inspire younger generations in Physics (1978) and honorary degrees elementary education. who went on to win the Nobel Prize in Observing the beta decay of cobalt-60 to pursue science, technology, engineer- from universities around the world. Analysis of the world, from experts Physics in 1959. She studied the elec- atoms, Wu measured the radiation in- ing and math education. She died in 1997 “In China, where I grew up,” explained In 1930, Wu attended National Central tromagnetic radiation produced when tensity as a function of the radiation di- . Xuejian Wu, Assistant Professor of Phys- University in Nanjing to study mathe- charged particles decelerate, as well as rection. To increase the accuracy of her Wu’s legacy continues today, with the ics, Rutgers University – Newark, NJ,” matics. But the revolutionary triumphs radioactive isotopes of xenon generated experimental measurements, Wu figured issuing of her postage stamp. She joins Wu is an icon who is sometimes called the of late 19th-century modern physics by splitting uranium atoms via nuclear out techniques to get her cobalt-60 atoms a short list of physicists featured on U.S. ‘Chinese Marie Curie.’” – such as the discoveries of atomic fission. In June 1940, Wu completed her all spinning in the same direction. She stamps, including Albert Einstein, Rich- “I first read about Wu’s extraordinary sto- structure and of X-rays – attracted Wu’s Ph.D. with honors. observed that more particles flew off in ard Feynman and Maria Goeppert-May- ry in my physics textbook, when I was a attention. She changed her major to After a short period of postdoctoral re- the direction opposite to the direction the er. (Courtesy https://theconversation. teenager in high school. Chien-Shiung Wu physics and graduated at the top of her search still at the Radiation Laboratory, nuclei were spinning. The law of parity com)