In sync Jennifer Camacho/On-line Forty-Niner Andres Martinez and Alessandra Beltran from Ritmo y Sabor Dance Company dance to music, choreographed by Carmen Bambaren.

 

News

• World Food Day focuses on Africa
  More than 70 students and faculty members gathered at Cal State Long Beach Thursday to take part in the 20th Annual World Food Day Teleconference.

• Center encourages sexual awareness
  In 2002 Health Services administered 1,025 pregnancy tests, of those, 108 were positive.

• Parenting the second time around
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Millions of grandparents are acting as primary caregiver to their grandchildren, often because their own sons and daughters are in jail or on drugs.

• Deal signed to share Colorado River resources
  BOULDER CITY, Nev. (AP) -- U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton signed a historic deal Thursday to end years of bickering over the Colorado River and fulfill a promise that California made 70 years ago to limit its use of the river it shares with six other states.

• Boys rescued from slave labor
  COTONOU, Benin (AP) -- Their bodies scarred by beatings and their hands callused from breaking rocks, 74 boys as young as 4 received medical treatment Thursday after their rescue from Nigerian granite quarries where they were forced to work as virtual prisoners.

 

Opinion

• Our View: Cost of living to exceed pension
  Since Social Security was started as part of the New Deal, people have looked forward to their "golden years" with the knowledge that if nothing else a small check from the government will come to them for all the years they have paid toward it.

• Honking not enough to support workers
  We've all honked in support.

• Comic expressions

• Degree not a guarantee
  After four or five years -- depending on how smart you are -- of writing essays, staying up late, waking up early, attending countless lectures and taking so many exams, the time finally comes for you to get what you've work so hard for and sacrificed so much for your college degree.

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