She worked -- when my grandfather went off to World War II, she worked on an assembly line, making bombers.
My knowledge of Persian food, however, had remained more or less suspended in that long-ago moment when Aunt Mali swept into my world, trailing the scent of spice.
So, I get very excited when I see evidence of my observations in the world around me.
Bill so our veterans, including our outstanding Latino veterans, can come home to the same chance to earn a college education as my grandfather had when he came back from World War II.
My first big splash on the internet came in 2004 when I was one of the first 30 podcasters in the world, hand-coding my RSS feed and speaking timidly into a microphone, broadcasting intimate thoughts to a global audience.
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It is one of the oldest operating synagogues in the world, and my ancestors certainly prayed here when travelling through Prague--although as far as I know I am the first in the family to earn an assigned seat!
When my father was born, in 1910, 80% of the world was ruled by emperors.
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But I think my biggest highlight was last year in Madrid when Alistair won the first World Cup he competed in after returning from injury.
When I was very young people would ask me what I wanted to do when I was older, and my answer was I want to travel the world.
My own experience of this occurred at the World Bank in 1985 when I asked to head a task force to streamline procedures at that august and stately institution.
This upbringing strongly influenced my world view and I cannot remember a time in my life when I was not intensely interested in agriculture and equally interested in youth and their development.
Technology working with me, to help me in my job, is the sort of technology that I like to see at SXSW. When I was least expecting it, another practical benefit of improved connectivity in my world showed up.
When I was finally able to cross that off my list it opened a whole new world of possibilities.
"When I bathe I am praying to God for the good of my country and the world, " he said.
"I really stepped up when I needed to, especially on my return of serve, " said the former world number one.
My heart thumps much faster, however, when I imagine what my life would be like today had I stayed in the corporate world and pursued someone else's idea of what my life was meant to be.
Just as I did when my son Keith was taken seven years ago, they now will wonder why the world continues to revolve - why it hasn't stopped in its tracks, how people can possibly go about their business as normal.
When I got the news I lost my mind, I lost my heart and the whole world collapsed for me.
After returning from a week trying to ski I thought I was the world's expert at falling flat on my face, going backwards when I should be going forwards and colliding into my nearest and dearest.
When asked by me, neither my dad, nor numerous friends and contacts in the working world who similarly attended HBS can offer up concrete examples of knowledge gained there that elevated their work product once graduated.
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But on a small business level, which is the essence of this country and it is the foreign ambassador for countries around the world to meet us, when I go to China and I spend all my time, I have a one-on-one relationship.
After all, why bother with an unreliable world of channel surfing when I have 22 years of Cheers and Frasier to work my way through?
"My career highlight, of course, has to be winning the world championships in 2003 in Barcelona but one of my most memorable moments was when I took gold in Manchester at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, " he said.
My family and friends have always been there for me even when I was traveling all over the world.
When my agency, StrawberryFrog, was asked to brand Dubai Downtown, and help put it on the world stage, we studied these great campaigns of the past even though the destinstion we were tasked to position is a city of the future.
The pictures bring to mind the work of Steve Pyke, whose portraits World War I veterans first came to my attention back in the mid-1990s when they were on show at the old headquarters of the Royal Photographic Society in Bath.
The 20 Most Popular Cities In The World To Visit In 2012 I was just getting ready to go on a European vacation when my e-mail pinged with a press release from MasterCard about the second annual list of the 20 most visited cities in the world.
The costs of my proposals would be miniscule, particularly when compared with their positive effects on the U.S. and world economies.
When I think about America, I think about my family, and I think about my grandfather who fought in World War II, and my grandmother, who, even with a baby, was working on a bomber assembly line.
When I last wrote about Neverwinter, the upcoming MMORPG from Cryptic Studios and Perfect World Entertainment, it was basically my way of bemoaning the plight of the single-player RPG.
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