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...attend school, compared with 97% of second-generation kids - hardly perfect but moving toward parity) and more proficient in the national language (by the third generation, 95% of Latino kids ages 15 to 17 speak English exclusively or very well). Another thing that happens is that parents start moving away from baby names like Guillermo and closer to names like William. "When [immigrant or later-generation] parents name their children, they are combining their own attachments and affinities with their hopes and aspirations for their children," says Guillermina Jasso, a sociology professor at New York University and a second-generation...
...think the whole team has come to expect great things from Dan,” Gillespie said. “He basically dominated right from the start. It was wonderful...
Chenoweth did all he could to have it swing the Crimson’s way. But while the race for first place was a blowout, the meet as a whole was tight until the end, when Harvard came through, 26-29. Chenoweth pointed to a team-wide strategy to start off fast...
...usually goes out pretty slow,” Chenoweth said. “The Yale guys weren’t ready for us to [start off] like that...
Fiorentini has developed a complex restoration process. Before he start cleaning a piece of a gravestone, he injects it with resin to stabilize it. Then after a few days he cleans the piece “section by section, without removing anything.” Next he begins to repair and fill any damage with the appropriate kind of mortar. After that comes the final measure, which Fiorentini calls “consolidation.” He describes this ultimate step as the one that looks towards the future...