You are a health researcher at an academic institution. you have been asked to work on a top-secret vaccine that would treat biomedical weapons or other communicable diseases. before your break through, you are instructed by the government to stop all research and turn over all materials and copies of your work to be destroyed. you know you are very close to finding a cure. what do you do?

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." lately, i’ve been giving more thought to the kind of english my mother speaks. like others, i have described it to people as “broken” or “fractured” english. but i wince when i say that. it has always bothered me that i can think of no other way to describe it other than “broken,” as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness and soundness. what best supports the inference that tan believes nonstandard english is no less valid than standard english? tan spends a lot of time thinking about her mother’s “fractured” english. tan has trouble thinking of descriptive words when she is writing. tan’s american education makes it difficult for her to understand her mother. tan winces when she describes her mother’s english as “broken.”