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Latinos…a hacerse la prueba de VIH
South Florida Sun-SentinelPuede que el sida siga siendo un tema tabú entre los hispanos, pero la realidad es que está más presente en esta comunidad de lo que se cree. Por ello hoy sábado 15 de octubre en el que se celebra el Día Nacional Latino para Concientización sobre el...Tags: Politics, Hollywood (Broward, Florida), Regional Authority, Wilton Manors, Social Issues
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Tamales, L.A.'s original street food
Special to the Los Angeles TimesSouthern California's latest foodie trend has the region atwitter. Lines form long into the night at the latest hot spot for edible treasures, while wily entrepreneurs outdo each other by parking at the best spots. But not everyone is happy. Brick-and-...Tags: Immigration, Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, Restaurant and Catering Industry, National or Ethnic Minorities
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Lives depend on more blacks becoming bone marrow donors
That day when Yvonne Lawrence glanced into the crib she immediately knew something was wrong.
Babies aren't supposed to be blue.
What she soon would learn at the hospital is that her 3-month-old son was cursed with sickle-cell anemia. The inherited...Tags: OxyContin (drug), Bones and Joints, African Americans, Hips, Minority Groups
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Florida ranks in top 10 of states with high diabetes rates
One in 10 Floridians has diabetes, a "disturbing" trend revealed in the nation's fat report last week. Though Florida ranks as the 29th-most-obese state in the country, the Sunshine State is No. 10 for diabetes. It's a distinction that comes with a...Tags: Genes and Chromosomes, Florida, Maine, Diabetes, Hospitals and Clinics
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Newton: The impact of the 'parent trigger'
This is what the revolution looks like: It's a rally in Lynwood where parents demand the right to exercise their power to shape their children's future; it's a dozen residents in a South-Central apartment gathering to compare notes on the failing...Tags: Los Angeles Unified School District, Academic Progress, National or Ethnic Minorities, Minority Groups, Gays and Lesbians
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White and mixed-race youths rank high in alcohol, substance abuse
The first-ever survey of adolescent alcohol and drug abuse to recognize youths of mixed race or ethnicity has found that such kids hover closest to white adolescents in the rate at which they suffer substance abuse disorders. That is not reassuring,...Tags: Health, Substance Abuse, Marijuana Use, Juvenile Delinquency, Social Issues
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Suspicion in Mexico's Sinaloa cartel
Last of four parts
Reporting from Calexico, Calif., and Badiraguato, Mexico
The towering iron gates opened onto a palm-lined driveway that led past the family church, a twisting water slide and two man-made lakes, one stocked with fish, the other with...Tags: Prosecution, New York, Prosecution, Rentals, Criminals
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Op-Ed: Gay history is everyone's history
I was quite surprised to read not one but two columnists attack a new law, the FAIR Education Act, just signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown. I usually find both columnists quite interesting and agree with most of their viewpoints, especially Dan Kimber's...Tags: Arts and Culture, Martin Luther King Jr., Martina Navratilova, History, Judaism
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NuvoTV's 'Model Latina' holding casting call in Chicago
Are you an attractive and intelligent Latina between the ages of 18-28?
If so, my Mom wants me to meet you nuvoTV wants to meet you. The cable network, which targets "Bi-Cultural Latinos," is holding a casting call for its reality show, "Model Latina,"...Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Entertainment, Fashion Shows, Television Industry, National or Ethnic Minorities
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The remnants of Riverview
When Russ Hencinski looks out of his classroom window at Lane Tech High School, the science and astronomy teacher sees a strip mall with a Jewel-Osco grocery store and other smaller shops.
But in his mind's eye, Hencinski can conjure up an image of the...Tags: Coney Island, Arts and Culture, Lifestyle and Leisure, North Center, History
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Hispanics abandoning organized religion, pollster says
Crucifixes, Virgin Mary statuettes, ornate Spanish-style churches: so many religious images seem permanently linked with Hispanic Americans. But that’s eroding fast, according to pollster George Barna.
In the fourth update on his annual survey...Tags: Protestantism, Christianity, Christian Orthodoxy, Death and Dying Customs, Religious Texts
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Latino men devote more effort to looking good, a new study reports
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterGoodbye, metrosexual, and hola, vanidoso. Increasingly, growth in the men's grooming arena will be driven by the personal care habits of Latinos. That's the takeaway from a recent study focusing on the grooming preferences of Latino men in the United...Tags: Arts and Culture, Mass Media, Politics, Immigration, United States Census Bureau
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