Word: mendez
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more likely to be passive [in a large section], and to not pay attention," said Lourdes M. Mendez '99. "A lot of times you don't know the people in your section as well. If it's smaller, it's better for discussion...
Dave Hoover wanted to be a lion tamer ever since he was a kid and saw Clyde Beatty's cheesy jungle movies. George Mendonca went to Rhode Island after the hurricane of '38 and stayed to become a topiary gardener. Ray Mendez, a photographer, had a high school fascination with insects; 20 years later, he learned that there were mammals--naked mole rats--living in colonies like insects, took photos of them, brought them home. Rodney Brooks is an M.I.T. scientist who loved to build things; now he makes robots whose movements are not programmed but follow the machine...
Nothing like a beauty contest to get some national soul searching going. When two judges were suspended from the Miss Italy jury for saying DENNY MENDEZ, a Caribbean immigrant, could not represent Italian beauty, interest in the pageant got hotter than a curling iron. One judge, TV personality Alba Parietti, argued that "a black woman does not correspond to the canons of Italian beauty." Neither the jury nor the voting public agreed, and Mendez, who has been an Italian citizen for four years, won the crown. "I know I don't represent Italian beauty, but they elected me," she said...
...Maria E. Mendez '97 said" "I didn't have time, and I didn't remember...
...work ethics," argues law professor Julie Nice of the University of Denver. "It is the lack of jobs." But those who do manage to find work can instantly lose their health coverage, food stamps, public housing and child care. Marriage too comes with a penalty. Mary Ann Mendez, a mother of three in Harlingen, Texas, received only Medicaid benefits when she was living with her common-law husband, who worked periodically. When he left her, however, her broken home was showered with benefits: Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), more food stamps, gas money to get to and from...