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...largest customer. For the 1,900 farmers who belong to the Huatusco cooperative, her opinion can mean food on the table--or not. If her standards are high, it is understandable. She pays twice the market price for 456,000 lbs. of their coffee. Why? Co-op president Josafat Hernandez has a simple explanation: "It allows us to survive." Coffee prices on the world market have fallen by two-thirds in the past five years to below what it costs to grow the beans here. Misery stalks the co-op's 43 hamlets, where as many as half...
...cramped, cluttered home of Gloria Tapia and Victor Hernandez sits half a block off the I-5 freeway in Los Angeles. The couple, illegal immigrants from Mexico who became U.S. citizens through an amnesty program, raised six American-born children in the city. Today their two-bedroom bungalow is home to 11 people representing three generations and is the hive of activity for the extended family. Here, each relative feels the absence of Jose Cesar Aparicio, a reservist serving in Iraq, in a different way. Gloria, 51, misses her son, her confidant. Of all her children, she says, Cesar...
...addition to strong inside play, Stanford also benefited from 19 points from guard Matt Lottich and seven assists from guard Chris Hernandez...
...youths who yearn to serve our nation. If we are to prevail in this seemingly endless conflict with radical Islam, we need to win the hearts of young people worldwide. This corps could be the answer to our military peacekeeping shortcomings, and it could create priceless political goodwill. BEN HERNANDEZ-STERN Pasadena, Calif...
...Palomar by Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics Books; 2003) For fourteen years "Love and Rockets," one of the most influential comix series ever created, included Hernandez' tales of a fictional Mexican border town called Palomar. All these stories have now been collected into a 522-page book that combines the convoluted absurdity of a soft-core soap opera with Lorca's depth of character and Faulkner's sense of place...