Esther J. Cepeda
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Conversations well worth havingOct 10, 2011 5:00 am - Prepare to blush. According to findings from a poll called “Let’s Talk: Are Parents Tackling Crucial Conversations about Sex?” a whopping 82 percent of parents say they...
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A liberation of identityOct 05, 2011 12:00 am - I’m sure that as the one-named author Toure worked on his just-released “Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now,” he thought he was exploring only...
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The English fluency challengeSep 29, 2011 5:00 am - I grew up bilingual in a city where as many as 64 languages were spoken by the public schools’ diverse student body. And like everyone else in our nation of immigrants, ...
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You can drink to thatSep 24, 2011 4:00 am - Ken Burns’ documentaries always leave you feeling that though you imagined you knew a thing or two about a historical event — the Civil War or World War II, the evolutio...
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Blunting the effects of video bombardmentSep 18, 2011 5:00 am - In the immortal words of nerve-wracked undersea driving instructor Mrs. Puff: “Oh SpongeBob!” Our favorite gaptoothed sea dweller is in trouble these days. Like high-ca...
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Too rich, too poor, too badSep 14, 2011 5:00 am - Joblessness, the general economic malaise and a never-ending stream of depressing statistics -- the number of people in poverty, the millions of dollars that corporate C...
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A health, not an image, issueSep 09, 2011 5:00 am - Half the United States will be obese by 2030 unless government interventions — making healthy foods cheaper, junk food more expensive, and regulating the marketing of un...
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The immigration quandarySep 02, 2011 5:00 am - In the most recent example of sending mixed signals about illegal immigration, a federal judge has temporarily blocked Alabama’s far-ranging new immigration law, which i...
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Stereotypes and the Strauss-Kahn caseAug 29, 2011 5:04 am - Ladieeees and gentlemen: As one of the year’s greatest media circuses on earth draws to a close, please direct your attention to the center ring to gape at one of th...
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A first step on life’s journeyAug 22, 2011 4:00 am - I recently explored the distressing trend of higher education devolving into an ultraexpensive job-training program rather than giving students the opportunity to discov...