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What is the No. 1 quality you think makes a woman a sex symbol? Erika Mendoza SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ...
...notion that being able to feed your family means leaving the Philippines is a message kids are quick to internalize. Kay C Mendoza, who never knew her father and whose mother has been working overseas since she was five, lives in Mabini with her siblings. Her aunt lives nearby and checks in on them daily. She has a typical 13-year-old's concerns about gossip and boyfriends. But Mendoza is also already planning her career overseas. "I'm going to work hard so my mother can come home," Mendoza says...
...mean putting up with long hours and cramped living quarters - and, all too often, abusive employers. But few of the grim details get shared in the regular phone calls parents make home to their kids. Through workshops like "Scrubbing Toilets is Never Fun," Atikha tries to urge kids like Mendoza to reconsider following in their parents' difficult footsteps...
...softball player Jessica Mendoza is another exception to athletic silence. "My goal is to create a conversation," says Mendoza, also the incoming president of the Women's Sports Foundation. She embraces the questions about China, and is particularly passionate about Darfur. "I'm willing to talk about it while most athletes aren't." Mendoza is extremely careful to avoid criticizing other athletes who shy away, citing the added pressure that activism brings. But as more athletes are asked about China, she says, "the last I would ever want any athlete to do is to say they don't know...
...Most of all, however, the assailants target the emos for dressing effeminately, still a provocative act for many in a macho Mexico. "At the core of this is the homophobic issue. The other arguments are just window dressing for that," said Victor Mendoza, a youth worker in Mexico City. "This is not a battle between music styles at all. It is the conservative side of Mexican society fighting against something different...