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Emergency Training Aids Classmate
When a student athlete fainted in class, she was lucky enough to be surrounded by Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (NJROTC) classmates who knew just what to do.
A female student had been training hard, but hadn’t had food or drink that day. During advanced placement calculus, she lost consciousness and fell [...]
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OCEANSIDE
- In Oceanside, Carlsbad, Del Mar and north San Diego County, immigrant day laborers wait by the side of the road, hoping a contractor will stop and offer them work. Alberto Juarez Martinez slings his jacket over his shoulder while he waits. His hands show the effect of a lifetime of manual work, plus arthritis [...]
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Vida en el Valle
Fifteen percent of the U.S. population is of Latino descent, but Latinos remain underrepresented on English-language television.
Only 4 percent of on-camera talent is Latino, a number that does not reflect reality, said Alex Nogales, president of the National Hispanic Media Coalition.
“That is very far away from where we need to be,” Nogales [...]
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Durante los incendios del Sur de California de octubre 2007, seis inmigrantes indocumentados huyeron de sus casas, sólo para encontrarse deportados a México.
Dos parejas, una con tres niños, fueron arrestadas por agentes de la U.S. Border Patrol [Patrulla de la Frontera de EE.UU.] en el estadio Qualcomm de San Diego después de haber recibido un [...]
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During the Southern California wildfires of October 2007, six undocumented immigrants fled from their homes, only to find themselves being deported back to Mexico.
Two couples, one with three children, were arrested by U.S. Border Patrol agents at San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium after a report that they were stealing food and water. After the incident, more [...]
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