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...Teresa's letters reveal not a "darkness" but a vulnerability. I can only imagine the mental and spiritual fortitude that a lifelong commitment to oppressed people would demand. Each letter Teresa wrote was an attempt to sustain her spirit as she battled the effects of extreme poverty. Zachary Davis, Modesto, California...
Zachary Davis, MODESTO, CALIF...
...unhealthy set of materials," she says. The guide, which can be downloaded at www.gghc.org is currently the basis for more than 100 pilot projects at health-care facilities across the U.S. The California health-care giant Kaiser-Permanente has just decided to adopt Green Guide principles at its new Modesto medical center...
...from the Association of Mexican Social Sector Credit Unions (AMUCSS), they pooled $170,000 and set up Xu Nuu Ndavi. One of its first business-starter loans, about $5,000, went to Mendoza's husband Daniel, 45, whose carpentry shop now employs Alberto and two other locals. Their buddy Modesto Ramos, 33, another returned migrant worker, has used his credit to raise and market tomatoes from a 1,200-sq.-ft., irrigation-equipped greenhouse...
DIED. Ernest Gallo, 97, vintner tycoon; just weeks after the death of his younger brother, cheesemaker Joseph Gallo; in Modesto, Calif. He grew up on a vineyard owned by his father, an immigrant from the wine-rich region of Piedmont, Italy. After their parents died, Ernest and his brother Julio began E. & J. Gallo Winery in 1933 with $5,900 and a wine recipe from a public library. With Ernest directing the company's innovative marketing campaigns, the duo turned the distinctly American family business into one of the world's largest winemaking empires...