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- via Latina Magazine Oh. Em. Geee. TV Line is reporting that Ricky Martin will guest star on Glee next year. We LOVE the hit FOX show and any chance to get a glimpse of Ricky is more than welcome so basically, we don’t know what to do with ourselves around here!
via Fox News Latino The Olympian wasn’t particularly athletic. He wasn’t in his teens or twenties. He wasn’t a medal winner, either.
- via NY Times Millions of American schoolchildren are receiving free or low-cost meals for the first time as their parents, many once solidly middle class, have lost jobs or homes during the economic crisis, qualifying their families for the decades-old safety-net program. The number of students receiving subsidized lunches rose to 21 million last… [Continue Reading]
- via Fox News Latino Regularly heading a soccer ball — even just a few times a day — can lead to brain injury, an American study said Tuesday. Researchers used an advanced MRI-based imaging technique to scan the brains of 38 amateur soccer players then compared the images to the number of times they… [Continue Reading]
Last December, I was unnerved by a snag in the fabric of my local society. Antonio Martinez was arrested and charged with plotting to detonate a car bomb in Catonsville, a town in which I used to work and one that is not far from my home. A convert to Islam, Martinez had decided that… [Continue Reading]
- via CNN Mexico City (CNN) — A high-profile Mexican peace movement blamed the country’s government Tuesday for the death of one of the group’s most vocal members. Nepomuceno Moreno Nunez, 56, was shot Monday afternoon as he crossed a street in Hermosillo, Sonora, authorities said. Investigators collected nine shell casings from the scene. “For… [Continue Reading]
Twenty years ago, I had my only direct experience with racial set-asides. I won a hundred dollars in an essay contest for Latino teens. Of course, kids of any race could enter, but it was clearly aimed at Latinos. I can’t recall ever being part of another social program that was, whether stated or implied,… [Continue Reading]
- via TODAY Video games have ratings for age appropriateness; why not mobile apps? CTIA, the wireless trade industry association, Tuesday plans to announce such a rating system that it hopes will give consumers “the information and tools they need to make informed choices when accessing apps.” Where will “Angry Birds,” for example, fall on… [Continue Reading]
- via CNN Democratic Texas Congressmen Silvestre Reyes and Charlie Gonzalez decried GOP contender Mitt Romney’s stance on immigration Wednesday. In a conference call with reporters, Gonzalez charged the former Massachusetts governor who’s seeking the 2012 GOP presidential nomination for the second time with trying to “out pander his competition.” “We have a saying. It’s… [Continue Reading]
- via Mamiverse.com Imagine eating a 5-pound bag of sugar. Now multiply that by nine. If you’re living in the United States, that’s likely what you consumed last year. Not in one sitting, of course. The average American consumes an average of 45 pounds of the white stuff annually. And given the high obesity rates… [Continue Reading]