She was lonesome, without a child and I became her daughter who she started raising instead of me helping her. She gave me $30,000 one day and said: “I want you to go to Harvard.”
Wow, that is some luck!
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#12This story is very sketchy. Couple of Google searches do not turn up anything useful about her beyond the standard PRish articles.
https://www.google.com/search?q=chanda+zaveri+linus+pauling https://www.google.com/search?q=chanda+zaveri+uc+santa+barba...
I tried looking list of people who have received honorary doctorate degrees from Harvard but couldn't find the entire list. But it is not in the summary list they have. (All this additional info from here: http://www.chandallc.com/index.php?p=1_4_About)
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#13That is why they call America the Land of Opportunity. If you work hard enough, you dreams will come true here.
Yeah but this girl got two lucky breaks , She found an old lady willing to give her 30,000 dollars to go to Harvard , and there she ended up meeting Linus Pauling .
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#14That is why they call America the Land of Opportunity. If you work hard enough, you dreams will come true here.
The opportunity is the same in most Western countries. Nothing special about America in this respect.
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#15I was more surprised when I found out that Freddie Mercury (vocalist for Queen) spent much of his childhood between Africa & India [1], moving to the UK only after the age of 17 under trying circumstances.
~B
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#16This story is very sketchy. Couple of Google searches do not turn up anything useful about her beyond the standard PRish articles. https://www.google.com/search?q=chanda+zaveri+linus+pauling https://www.google.com/search?q=chanda+zaveri+uc+santa+barba... I tried looking list of people who have received honorary doctorate degrees from Harvard but couldn't find the entire list. But it is not in the summary list they ha…
She does have some patents in her name
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#17That is why they call America the Land of Opportunity. If you work hard enough, you dreams will come true here.
>>That is why they call America the Land of Opportunity. If you work hard enough, you dreams will come true here.
What?
This woman is from India, and trust me India of 2013 is nothing unlike the India of 1980s or early 1990's. Long gone are those days where one had to leave India and go to somewhere in the west to have a worth while life. You can pretty much be anything you want to be in modern day India.
And by the way if you work hard 'enough', your dreams will come true anywhere!
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#18This story is very sketchy. Couple of Google searches do not turn up anything useful about her beyond the standard PRish articles. https://www.google.com/search?q=chanda+zaveri+linus+pauling https://www.google.com/search?q=chanda+zaveri+uc+santa+barba... I tried looking list of people who have received honorary doctorate degrees from Harvard but couldn't find the entire list. But it is not in the summary list they ha…
What's your point?
I don't expect her to be on the internet except in the corporate sense. Her formative years were before the internet era.
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#19If the story is true, then I question her ethics.
As http://www.preventcancer.com/consumers/cosmetics/cosmetics_p... (among many other sources) points out, we do not have good regulation of the cosmetics industry. Which is kind of scary, because the cosmetics industry is deliberately seeking biologically active stuff, and smearing it all over people. Stuff that, in her case, does things like change your natural skin color.
What else does it do? We don't really know. We do know that a lot of these substances can cause cancer. We know that cosmetics mimic biologically active stuff in our body that could do other things. We know it has not been studied.
The last point is important. As http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/othercarcinogens/a... makes clear, the situation right now is, "The jury is out, we don't have data." But I'd be firmly on the side of, "When you're deliberately trying to get the body to interact with biologically active stuff, it is just a question of time until you succeed..disastrously."
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except for most musicians, actors, actors turned prostitutes, lawyers who are waiters, near-homeless programmers who read HN, startup employees who got screwed by finance people, etc. ;) I'm just saying there might be other factors: like the industry you work in, your interests, govt subsidization of your industry, saturation/supply/demand, etc. Someone interested in makeup is going to have a different life than some…
> near-homeless programmers who read HN You have to screw up pretty hard to be near-homeless as a programmer in this environment.
Well I guess I screwed up royally