Articles Posted July 2009
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Utah Latinos not Graduating High School
Politicians call it the achievement gap. Educators and families call it heartbreaking. Only 69 percent of Latino students graduate from Utah high schools compared with 91 percent of white students. Many challenges keep young Latinos from graduating: language barriers, economic pressures, lack of role models and stereotyping in schools, to name a few. Experts say [...]
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Meet the Latina who made the word ‘Hispanic’ official
Dos Lives explores ‘Latino’ life here in the U.S., and not ‘Hispanic’ life according to the graphic at the top of our site, but we’d still like to know who made the word ‘Hispanic’ official. It’s not who you think. Meet Grace Flores-Hughes, the Hispanic bureaucrat who helped establish “Hispanic” as the government’s word of [...]
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Yo Quiero Taco Bell No Más
Adios Gidget, the Chihuahua who starred in a series of Taco Bell commercials and made famous the phrase “¡Yo quiero Taco Bell!” Gidget died of a stroke Tuesday at the ripe old age of 15, according to the L.A. Times. According to the article, she’d lived in comfortable semiretirement since the heyday of the Taco [...]
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Swine Flu Spreads to Puerto Rico;Sotomayor Familia is safe, right?
It’s a good thing Sonia Sotomayor’s family is with her this week for her confirmation hearings because back home the *Swine Flu is saying Hola to Puerto Rico with over 300 suspected of Swine Flu and 35 confirmed cases all on one island! hmm…maybe the Swine Flu isn’ that bad when compared to sitting through [...]
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Dos Lives is the place for Sotomayor Mania
CNN…Univision…New York Times…there’s a lot of places you can go for Sotomayor confirmation hearing coverage, but only at Dos Lives will you get the coverage, plus meet additional potential Supreme Court candidates from the Bronx. Keep it with Dos Lives! Leave a comment and let us know what you think! What do you think? Leave [...]
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Rock Royalty – Gwen Stefani
Last month, I spent the best $15 ever when I attended the No Doubt concert. I got to see Rock Royalty in the flesh. Style icon Gwen Stefani has been a trendsetter since the group first hit the scene in 1994. The rock princess graces the cover of Elle Magazine’s July issue which hit stands [...]
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Is there a lot of “cantinfleando” happening in Mexico?
The fight is on! Midterm elections are coming on July 5th to choose the new representatives, governors, mayors and members of congress. All the different parties started the battle in full throttle. It all seems the same old thing; parties attacking each other, politicians looking down on others, presenting lawsuits, etc. Banners and billboards are [...]
