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...mothers of these children wore special backpacks containing air-sampling equipment for 48 hours during their third trimester of pregnancy, capturing both indoor and outdoor air quality. Based on the results, they were divided into high-PAH-exposure and low-exposure groups. The mothers were healthy, nonsmoking black and Dominican-American women, ages 18 to 35, living in northern Manhattan and the South Bronx - not far from Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health, where Perera is a professor. (Read "The Risks [and Rewards] of Pills and Pregnancy...
...brands have crossover appeal." Republica Trading Co., a small men's apparel brand founded by Rafael Jimenez, started out targeting a very specific Latin niche--Dominican ex-pats living in New York City's Washington Heights neighborhood--but has grown to envelop a much wider audience. Republica's shirts, jackets, pants and sweaters, which often feature Latin iconography and phrases, are carried by Bloomingdale's and Up Against the Wall. Says the Dominican-American Jimenez: "Republica is progressive streetwear that is designed from a Latino perspective but is for a multi-ethnic audience--like...
...ancestry, often plays in Ridgefield Park, N.J., with friends of different races. Thecla says an older friend recently asked her why she hangs out with black people all the time: "She said, 'Look how loud and rude they are.'" Children of color face similar pressures. Cynthia Bou, 13, a Dominican-American friend of Thecla's, says an older cousin asked her why some of her friends are white. "White people are whack," she warned Cynthia. "You're going to change when they treat you wrong...
Meijia said that the type of interaction this event fostered could be continued if an institute for Dominican-American relations were created at Harvard...
...week, the movie houses were packed, and a chic fashion show drew a capacity crowd. Well-stocked shops were doing a bustling business, Rotarians held their regular dinner at the downtown Hotel Mercedes, the local civic band played its customary Sunday-afternoon concert in the park, and the binational Dominican-American Center held its usual graduation ceremony for the students who had been learning English...
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