Category: scrapbook
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Education a top priority for Asians
Education a top priority for Asians After-school tutoring in demand as parents aim high BY CONNIE LLANOS, Staff Writer Los Angeles Daily News Article Last Updated:11/05/2006 06:58:32 PM PST SANTA CLARITA – For most kids, the school day is over by 3 p.m. But for many Korean-American students, that is when the real learning begins.…
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Education a top priority for Asians
Education a top priority for Asians After-school tutoring in demand as parents aim high BY CONNIE LLANOS, Staff Writer Article Last Updated:11/05/2006 06:58:32 PM PST SANTA CLARITA – For most kids, the school day is over by 3 p.m. But for many Korean-American students, that is when the real learning begins. “Hagwon” schools are traditional…
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Continuation of Emergency Coverage: AB 813 Passes Senate
PDF: http://yokim.net/wiki/Image:AB_813_Nunez_to_Advocates.pdf Sacramento Office 1107 Ninth Street, Suite 801 Sacramento, California 95814 Telephone: 916/442-0753; FAX 916/442-7966 www.wclp.org [Tags]medicare, medicare part d, prescription drug, medi-medi, dual eligible, emergency measure, california, legislature, law, medi-cal[/Tags] Continuation of Emergency Coverage Medicare Part D – Update May 11, 2006 AB 813 Nunez/Perata Current state emergency coverage for Medicare Part D…
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Government Sued over Failure to Implement Medicare Drug Law’s Protections for Low-Income People
Government Sued over Failure to Implement Medicare Drug Law’s Protections for Low-Income People: Challenge Brought on Behalf of More than 6 Million Recipients Oakland, CA; April 26, 2006–A class action complaint was filed today in the U.S. Federal District Court, Northern District of California to force the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure…
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alienated translator
Consider this a front-line ethnographic report on translator-original text producer split of a phenomenon that also occurs in the programming front with i18n’s when you step down from the MTA bus, you can see at the exit a sign that reads Wait for green light, then step down and also right below it Espere por…
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Senate approves nomination of Mark McClellan for CMS administrator
This stuff doesn’t show up on their website anymore nor the Internet Archive, but it’s still on google cache. Senate approves nomination of Mark McClellan for CMS administrator
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Jan 18/W 6:30 LA Delegation to WTO Report Back & Fundraiser
I got an email on the Report Back from the LA delegation to WTO on Jan18. Check out WTO, Food and Dirt, Hong Kong and Koreans from the US, a blog apparently run by several people, including some from the LA delegation. The PDF flier attached to the original email is here.
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Colorado College American Cultural Studies External Review
http://www.macalester.edu/americanstudies/index.htm REVIEW OF THE AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES PROGRAM AT COLORADO COLLEGE Professor Duchess Harris participated in assessing the curricular scope of the American Cultural Studies Department at Colorado College and offered recommendations as to how it can be developed as a program. (Review downloadable as PDF)
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Roberto Rodriguez. As America's Latino diaspora evolves, so does the field
Roberto Rodriguez As America’s Latino diaspora evolves, so does the field Founded some 30 years ago and at one time believed to be on the verge of extinction, the field of Chicano studies is constantly expanding. As Puerto Rican and Cuban communities grew in the United States in the 1960s and ’70s, so did the…