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Deborah Brennan CalMatters Horas después de una tormenta en noviembre, el río Tijuana inundó una arboleda en Imperial Beach, se desbordó por una hilera de alcantarillas y explotó en montones de espuma fétida. Este es el centro neurálgico del río contaminado, que enferma a miles de personas en el...
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Deborah Brennan CalMatters Hours after a November storm, the Tijuana River flooded a grove of trees in Imperial Beach, gushed through a row of culverts and exploded into mounds of fetid foam. This is ground zero for the contaminated river, which sickens thousands of people in southern San Diego...
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Larry Valenzuela CalMatters En un caluroso día de verano, decenas de jornaleros hicieron una pausa en su trabajo de recolección de chiles en un campo remoto a 42 kilómetros de Fresno y acudieron a una clínica médica temporal. Era una oportunidad para recoger medicamentos y hacerse evaluaciones básicas de...
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Larry Valenzuela CalMatters On a scorching summer day, dozens of farm laborers paused their work picking banana peppers in a remote field 26 miles from Fresno and filed into a pop-up medical clinic. It was a chance to pick up medication and take basic health assessments, such as blood...
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Cientos de millones de jóvenes estadounidenses están expuestos cada año al consumo de tabaco y cigarrillos en películas, programas de televisión y vídeos musicales populares, según el séptimo informe anual “While You Were Streaming” de la organización sin ánimo de lucro Truth Initiative. Las representaciones del tabaco han descendido...
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Hundreds of millions of American young people are exposed to vaping and smoking in popular movies, TV shows and music videos each year, according to the 7th annual “While You Were Streaming” report from the nonprofit Truth Initiative. Tobacco depictions are down in the most popular Hollywood shows but...
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In the wake of the recent spate of plane crashes, four of them in the United States since Donald Trump took office, it is reasonable to ask whether commercial flights are still the safest way to travel.a Thanks to decades of engineering advances and strict regulations that reduced accident...
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Tara García Mathewson CalMatters In 1953, Bárbara Flores entered kindergarten at Washington Elementary School in Madera, California, a small city in the Central Valley surrounded by farm fields. Her mother and grandmother had talked it up: You’re going to learn a lot. You’re going to like it. She believed them....
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Nebraska was among the states affected by the recent E. coli outbreak traced to onions in McDonald’s hamburgers. Federal officials said they are now certain about the source but broader questions about the overlap with beef production linger. The outbreak caused at least one death and sickened dozens of...