Word: alvarado
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...sophomore Michael Kalfayan breezed past his opponent 6-1, 6-2, while at No. 5, senior Gideon Valkin crushed his opponent, David Alvarado, 6-2, 6-2 with bullet after bullet from the baseline. Valkin confounded all of Alvarado’s attempts to change the flow of the game with well-placed groundstrokes, often from well behind the baseline...
...junior Ashwin Kumar broke out of a funk dating back to Jan. 27 by defeating the Jaspers’ Diego Alvarado 6-3, 6-4. Kumar’s tenacious tennis had Alvarado on his heels from the first serve of the match. Kumar was shuffled back two spots in the lineup after his recent struggles, while senior co-captain Scott Denenberg (No. 2) and junior Dan Nguyen (No. 3) each moved up one spot...
That year the Honduran Secretary of Health began a pilot program--partly sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)--to improve the welfare of children by taking care directly to their villages rather than making them travel for it. Alvarado, who had accepted a job with USAID as a childhood-nutrition consultant, argued that it was imperative that the new program include a comprehensive tutorial in food handling, hygiene and meal planning. She put together her curriculum and dispatched teams of health workers into the countryside to teach...
...Alvarado doesn't know which nutrition lessons the mothers began practicing in their homes, but it was clear that they were doing something different. "The people in the health clinics started saying 'We don't see so many sick children from those towns,'" reports Alvarado, now 55. "They bring their children in for vaccines or checkups but not for malnutrition sicknesses...
...case the improvement in the children's health didn't motivate the mothers, Alvarado started posting her pin charts in each community. Children who reached their height and weight goals were awarded the blue pins; those who didn't got red ones. "The mothers can see the goal," Alvarado says. "They say, 'I don't want my child to have a red pin; I want him to grow...