Click here for Slide Show By DAMIEN CAVE Published: December 1, 2008 JAYUYA, P.R. — The seven girls posed, preened and smiled with all the energy of Miss Universe contestants, but this was no ordinary pageant. The competitors, from about 6-years-old to 16, had just paraded through a downpour to a small stage surrounded by mountains, …
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — It may be the only place in Cambodia where the children are nicknamed Homey, Frog, Floater, Fresh, Bugs and Diamond. Enlarge This Image Stuart Isett for The New York Times Tach Piseth, 11, practiced spinning on his head at the Tiny Toones break dancing club in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The club teaches about …
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For a revealing and informative interactive slide show about the human conditions at a tin ore mine in the Congo click on link below: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/11/15/world/africa/20081115-congo/index.html
Doctors in Berlin are reporting that they cured a man of AIDS by giving him transplanted blood stem cells from a person naturally resistant to the virus. For full article click on link below: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/health/14hiv.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
By Jason Gedeik, Sojourners "This election demonstrates the beginning of a fundamental shift taking place in America which is, at once, a political shift, a cultural and racial shift, a generational shift, and a religious shift. In recent times, religion has been both too narrow and too divisive. The leadership of African American and Latino Christians, …
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President-elect Barack Obama, right, hugged Iraq war veteran Tammy Duckworth after a wreath laying ceremony at the Bronze Soldiers Memorial in Chicago in honor of Veteran's Day. Ms. Duckworth is the director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs.
By Gabriel Salguero, El Diario / La Prensa, 17 October 2008. Translated from Spanish by Chris Brandt. There is an apparent shift in the social agenda of Protestant and Evangelical Latinos in recent years. The Latino Leadership Circle, a group of progressive evangelicals to which I belong, recently stated: “Our political agenda includes a full …
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Among those ages 16 to 19, access to part-time jobs, full-time jobs and summer jobs had already declined through this decade, and by last month only 31.4 percent had held some sort of employment. In the year ahead, Professor Sum predicted, “The teens will be thrown out of the labor market at record levels,” often …
The Latino Leadership Circle congratulates President elect Barack Hussein Obama for his overwhelming victory last night; thank you for believing and pressing on. We would like to also thank Senator John McCain for his run and contribution to our country. Now its time for all of us to heal the wounds, mend the fences …
See NY Times video on Poll analysis; Hispanics play a crucial role: http://video.nytimes.com/video/2008/10/28/us/politics/1194828826503/fast-paced-political-realignment.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink