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...back in Mexico. He paid a $700 fine after he ignored an earlier warrant and was picked up again for driving without a license or insurance. "Back home," he says, "I would have settled with the police on the street for $10." Says Heredia, a onetime Aspen dishwasher who now works as a court interpreter: "It's a shock to come from the worst poverty into the richest country with no guidance." His two-year-old How to Live in America program is a formal part of the courts' sentencing process in nine Colorado counties. "I'm not seeing repeaters...
This is the kind of place where even Coloradans go to get away from it all. A high desert expanse in the center of the Uncompahgre Valley, Montrose, Colo., is near such world-class mountain recreation areas as Telluride and Aspen. But this western Rockies town, with its 274 days a year of sunshine, manages to remain a quiet, affordable enclave in a rapidly growing state of outdoor buffs...
Those planning just to visit might start at the Lathrop House, a Victorian bed-and-breakfast two blocks from downtown. When it comes to dining, residents are quick to point out that Montrose's handful of good restaurants aren't up to glitzy Aspen's standards. But they aren't up to Aspen's prices either. That, for the folks who live here, is the point. --R.W. Reported by Richard Woodbury/Denver...
That's what Julie Aigner-Clark of Littleton, Colo., did after she developed Baby Einstein, her first educational video for infants. A former schoolteacher, Aigner-Clark, 33, was still pregnant with her first daughter, Aspen, when she came across research showing that children learn foreign languages more easily when they are exposed to a variety of language sounds during infancy...
...about a year later when Aigner-Clark, busy raising her baby, and her husband Bill borrowed video equipment and began filming Baby Einstein in their basement. "It took forever," she recalls. "It was all done at night, after my husband came home from work and Aspen went to bed." The award-winning video features images and toys favored by her 1 1/2-year-old daughter, with an audio backdrop of songs and nursery rhymes spoken by mothers in seven different languages. Aigner-Clark hired the women from a nearby language school and instructed them to speak in "motherese," the universal, high-pitched...