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Tech to detect when a driver is dozing off
A new technology is helping sleepy drivers on the road to prevent accidents. A research project at the University of Leicester has combined eye-tracking and brain monitoring to calculate when a driver’s alertness starts to
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Immigration Reform Bill Bonanza for Defense Industry
At only $17 million each the Blackhawk is just what we need for border security. Not! In what should come as a surprise to nobody (if they’re conscious), some digging has revealed that beneath
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LATISM and L4LL Summer Reading Twitter Party
By: Viviana Hurtado, Ph.D. Along with my partner Monica Olivera, we are so excited to partner with LATISM for a Twitter Party this Thursday, July 11, 2013 at 9PM EST. Monica and I run Latinas
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Corporate Racial Insensitivity has a price
Racial slurs and insensitivity are certainly, sadly, nothing new in the U.S. But a lawsuit against Target brought by three Latinos, if it proves true, paints a rather grim picture of corporate America. One
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Helping African Women One Scarf at a Time
Travelling across the country is tiring and after 10 days away from home, it’s even worse. But coming home and finding something special waiting (besides my four children and their exhausted father) makes it
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Obama Looks to the Clean Air Act as Inspiration for Tackling Climate
President Obama’s Climate Action Plan outlines the new federal regulations on restricting carbon pollution in an effort to fight global warming. The new plan consists of cutting carbon emissions stateside in an across-the-board fashion but acknowledges
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Natalie Cole Releases New Spanish Language Album
Grammy winning singer Natalie Cole has just released her first album in four years and the big news is that it’s all in Spanish. Natalie Cole En Espanol is the 63-year-old singer’s first studio album
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LATISM’13 National Conference Growing Strong: Focusing on Community Outreach
“If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.” Those words that epitomize New York City also express how we feel about LATISM’13 National Conference taking place in the Big Apple this
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New Documentary Needs Your Support
It’s not often that I hear about a movie that NEEDS to be made, but just such a project recently came to me. Recovering Irma is a documentary about domestic violence and it’s unlike
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How the Great Recession is Changing Education
Since the great economic meltdown of 2008, we’ve seen changes both in the U.S. and abroad in the existing educational systems. Economic pressure has caused changes that range from cost-cutting to entirely new teaching
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