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...Annual Latino Law and Public Policy Conference, which will last until tomorrow night. “The Latino future is the saving grace of this country,” said Cisneros, who became the first Hispanic mayor of a major American city when he took office as mayor of San Antonio, Texas in 1981. He pointed to the growing size of the American Latino population as evidence of the group’s promising future, noting that around 40 percent of Latinos in the U.S. are under 20 years of age. Young Latinos are “so numerous...
...benefits.The spirit of the campaign for legalization is reflected in the counterculture “holiday” of April 20, or “4/20,” when many people unite in cannabis consumption.The day has its roots in the 1970s, when a group of teenagers in San Rafael, Calif., would meet each day after school at 4:20 p.m. to smoke marijuana under a statue of French chemist Louis Pasteur, according to the Web site for High Times, a magazine about the cannabis culture. In the years that followed, many other users began to smoke communally...
...neglected one simple way to help curb emissions: don't drink bottled water. Think of all those millions of plastic bottles. Even recycling them consumes nearly as much energy as that needed to produce them. Darien Werfhorst, San Francisco...
...phenomenon started long, long ago (1977) in a galaxy far, far away (San Diego) when a then little-known director named George Lucas attended an intimate comic-book convention to promote a movie called Star Wars. Lucas' films have since become a gateway drug for a generation of movie addicts. And Comic-Con, the San Diego convention of genre buffs, has become a Hollywood must-attend event, albeit one where dressing to impress means dry cleaning your Darth Vader costume. It's significant that this fanboy Christmas happens not in Hollywood but two hours south. The appeal of the species...
...breast-fed than at any time in at least 50 years, more women work outside the home, and more young women undergo breast surgery. Advocates argue that milk sharing lets women be good moms while fulfilling other goals. Says Natalia Chang, 29, who has cross-nursed with her San Jose, Calif., neighbor: Breast milk is "a communal commodity around here...