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She is known as the creator of Chica lit - chick lit with a Latin flair. Just as Terry McMillan put the spotlight on the African-American reading community, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's best-selling first novel, The Dirty Girls Social Club, focused attention on, and energized, the Hispanic literary scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Questions for Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez | 5/26/2006 | See Source »

After three years of criticism for being too strict in the application of its No Child Left Behind law, which established strict standards for measuring students' progress, the Bush administration is finally beginning to show some leniency. Last week, the Department of the Education announced it would allow two states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Child Left Behind: Giving the States a Break | 5/22/2006 | See Source »

For Dr. Guillermo Herrera, who has been running Brigham and Women's Spanish Clinic since he founded it in 1971, better patient-doctor communication is exactly what his growing Hispanic patient population needs. The close relationship between Ocasio and Brickell has helped Ocasio navigate her way to a more honest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching Doctors To Care | 5/21/2006 | See Source »

It's an old joke that Oakland has been a city of the future since forever, but that is finally coming true in ways that are good and bad. The city of 412,000 is roughly 35% black, 31% white, 21% Hispanic and 15% Asian. Refugees from more expensive ZIP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerry Brown Still Wants Your Vote | 5/21/2006 | See Source »

After absinthe, sake-tinis and soy-based vodkas, what's the next big thing in spirits going to be? Quite possibly tequila?but not the paint-stripping firewater that gave you no end of college hangovers. Instead, look for upmarket tequilas better suited to sophisticated, postprandial sipping rather than dilution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Spirits | 5/21/2006 | See Source »

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