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According to Helen Martinez, founder of Chica Inc., a lifestyle fashion brand based in Los Angeles, it was the 2000 Census that convinced fashion execs there was big money to be made marketing to the nearly 39 million Latinos who represent the U.S.'s single largest minority group. This year Chica's sales are projected to reach $2 million--double last year's. Similarly, the Vato line of Latin tops is in "constant reorder mode," according to Carl Dias, the women's buyer for L.A.'s Traffic boutique...
...Stressed or Just Spoiled? "Spa kids" reported that "massages and facials are now in vogue with the younger set" [July 21]. Meanwhile, the U.S. Census Bureau states that 16.3% of American children live in poverty. The teens patronizing day spas would be better off if they devoted their time to helping their less fortunate peers. Maybe then they would realize that by comparison, they have little to be stressed over. Perhaps it would provide some perspective for their parents, too. Patricia J. Williams Cary...
...million Number of Hispanics living in the U.S., according to Census estimates, making them the nation's largest minority group...
...hardly alone. Every day thousands of Biharis cram the state's railroad platforms to join the millions who have already migrated to a new life, becoming the unskilled backbone of industries as diverse as the construction business in Kashmir, the cotton houses of Bombay and the farms of Punjab. Census takers say a third of Champaran's population has taken part in the exodus. Long before his own kidnapping, Salahuddin sent all three of his sons to New Delhi to study and work. "Our society is on the edge," he says. "The entire social system is falling apart. Nobody believes...
...bona fide home front for the more than 2,000,000 American dads who have left the cubicle for the small desk in their den. But when I called Peter to get the latest at-home daddy scoop, he glumly informed me that no new data exists. ""The Census tries to track us," he said, "but their efforts fall short. They never ask who the primary caregiver is." According to a national study conducted by University of Alabama professor Jordan I. Kosberg, heterosexual men (which would undoubtedly include fathers, at-home or otherwise) are routinely overlooked in social work literature...