it had to be something that westinghouse would end up with. magnetic boots were born out of this so-called free inventing time. radus's job at westinghouse had nothing to do with the space program, but he used this free time to get caught up in the race to the moon. i asked pat what happened to the boots: were they sold to nasa? he doesn't know. they folded the department up, so ray went to another department and i went to a television department. i still don't know if the boots found a home at nasa or if some version of his technology made it into space, so i'm heading to space center houston next to the site of nasa's legendary mission control. it was here that anxious flight controllers tracked the gemini space walk missions. the astronaut gallery lds the world's largest collection of spacesuits. hi, joe. hi, elyse, how are you? good, nice to meet you. nice to meet you as well. joe kosmo has been a nasa spacesuit engineer since 1961. he shows me a flight suit and boots once worn by ed white. they are just like the pictures i saw. he illustr

chinese-americans winning nobel prizes and flooding the best universities in the country, and acing the westinghouse and national merit scholarship competitions. the chinese were called the modern minorities. the model minorities. moving onward and upward at an incredible pace. but all of this would change by the late 1990s. and for the very first time in my life i saw the reality of popular culture collide with the reality of my personal experience, which destroyed lives in the process. the class clash of the soviet empire made china the second biggest superpower and hence the prime role for america's new enemy. a "time" magazine cover story implied a new cold war with china was on the horizon. and a deeply flawed report released by the special committee under congressman christopher cox suggested that the prc had been stealing nuclear secrets from the u.s. for decades. and the result was a major anti-chinese backlash from the u.s. especially in the national laboratories. the most visible victim of this was wen ho lee, a taiwanese-american scientist who was accused of passing design secrets of the

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