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The photo was taken at Ticlio Pass, Peru. The sign says ``Highest railway point in the world: 4818 meters, 15806 feet.'' NOTE: On July 1, 2006 Peru lost its first place position when China opened a railway connection between Golmud and Lhasa that crosses a mountain pass at 5072 meters (16644 feet).
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Branch campuses abroad -- December 2011 letter to The Chronicle of Higher Education
My reply to a request from BBC/Vietnamese for comments about the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM) -- in English and Vietnamese; my interview with Fields medalist and VIASM director Ngo Bao Chau can be found here.
Vietnam Trip Report -- March 2010
Higher Education Controversy in Vietnam
Anti-Vietnam bias in The New York Review of Books