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...this third film, overseer Chris Columbus, who directed Sorcerer and the first sequel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, has handed the reins to Alfonso Cuaron, the Mexican director best known for the too-hot-for-an-R sex comedy Y Tu Mama Tambien. Cuaron, however, also made the English-language children's film A Little Princess, so he knows his way around precocious kid actors...
...garments too. Experts estimate that more than half the 144,000 garment workers in Southern California are of Korean origin and up to half the companies are Korean owned. Entrepreneurs of Indian origin today own 38% of all hotels in the U.S. and more than half of budget motels. Mexican Americans whose forebears worked California's vineyards are becoming owners. Once, immigrant business owners were reluctant to pass the torch to their kids, hoping their labor would hoist the younger generation into more prestigious professions. That's changing. As the businesses grow, American-born heirs are increasingly willing to follow...
...some cases, the children of immigrants, thanks to education and experience, are leaving hard labor behind for good. Mexican workers in California's wine country have been preparing for generations to face their unique challenge: trading grape-stained work gloves for ownership papers. Since the 1940s, millions of Mexicans have traveled across the border to work the California vineyards. Those economics haven't changed in what is now the $33 billion U.S. wine capital. During harvest, Napa County is home to up to 2,700 migrant workers, most from Mexico. For as much as $15 an hour, the workers endure...
...Among the points made by speaker Dr. William Dietz of the CDC was that while 30% of American adults are now obese, the numbers are even worse for certain segments of the population. Among Mexican-American women, he said, the figure was 40%; among African-American women, it's 50%. These figures were more than enough to get the conversation started...
...Journal of the American Medical Association showed, for the first time, that blood-pressure rates among children and teens across the U.S. have inched up over the past 15 years--a consequence of their growing girth. "The increase was seen in boys and girls, among whites, African Americans and Mexican Americans," says Paul Muntner, an epidemiologist at Tulane University in New Orleans and the study's lead author. "As these children become adults, they're more likely to develop high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke...