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...Allwood had an unusual role model in her own mother, who she says was the first woman doctor in El Salvador (her surname comes from an English grandfather). Allwood, too, would blaze a trail by becoming among the few women to major in engineering at the national university. When she raised her hand in class, a professor would tell her to go home and wash dishes. Newly divorced and toting a toddler, Allwood took an IT job in the U.S., where she says her accent, ethnicity and gender-even her complexion-proved major roadblocks. "Customers would...
...young men in hooded sweatshirts go by rapper tags--Spion, El Pach, Benou and K-Soc--and like thousands of others from the grimy, soulless apartment blocks that ring France's big cities, they were out cruising the mean streets of Paris' banlieues, or suburbs, last week. Near the city hall of Bobigny, a rough town on the northeastern outskirts of Paris, a circle of fire marked where a trash container had been set alight to provoke a police patrol. "People mix it up with the police every day around here," says Spion, 19, who is of Moroccan origin...
DIED. AL LOPEZ, 97, Hall of Fame catcher turned manager, known as El Seńor for his genial, gentlemanly style; in Tampa, Fla. Few pennant victories have been sweeter than his American League wins in 1954, with the Cleveland Indians, and 1959, when he led the Chicago White Sox to their first World Series since 1919. The player whose teams so often finished second to the New York Yankees became the only manager whose teams finished ahead of them during the years...
Noni Allwood, 50, has struggled with stereotyping against women and minorities in the field of high technology ever since she immigrated from El Salvador in 1982. She terms the small slights that alienate women like her--the inside jokes, the averted eyes, the overlooked suggestions--microinequities. She worked mightily to rise to director of European strategy at Cisco Systems but recently abandoned that role to become director of global gender diversity. Through a program called Girls Get IT, Cisco is trying to rally interest in technology careers among girls by funding workshops at urban schools and in poorer countries around...
...kidnapped the trophy wife of a millionaire with the same name—is a must see and must see again. Watch, enjoy, and play one of the following “Big Lebowski” drinking games. In respect to “His Dudeness, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing,” the beverage of choice is the white Russian, a combination of two parts vodka, one part Kahlua, one part light cream...