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Page B6 ^ J lo r tla n b © b s m ie r lune 23. 2004 Elderly Mexican Woman Carries Torch Masters track and field champion honored (AP) — The w orld’s fastest w om an - at 93- w ears a T -shirt, a cheap, blue- c h e c k e re d d re ss an d fad e d ca n v as sneakers. The only hint o f a sports achievem ent is a sponsor’s jacket that announces a w ebsite in her name. If there’s not much glam our to the life o f a m asters track and field cham pion, there is occasional honor. Last week, the 93-year-old carried the O lym pic torch before tens o f thousands o f people on the fea tu re d leg o f its passag e through M exico en route to A thens. Rosario Iglesias, a 93-year-old m a s te r s “I’m very proud that they included m e d a ls in M exico City. (AP photo) m e,” said Rosario Iglesias, know n as “C hayito.” delivering them to subscribers, co v er For m ost o f her life, Iglesias rose well ing six to seven m iles a day, according before dawn, collected new spapers from to her grandson C onrado Peralta, 46. distributors and ran though the streets Born in Mexico City on Aug. 31,1910, Wary of Immigrants track a n d field ch a m p io n sh o w s her she was 80 years old before taking up sports. A custom er who w as also a run ner noticed her rushing about and sug gested she enter a race. She did, she won and she started training, aided by her grandson, who had learned about physical co n d itio n ing w hile on a p ro fessio n al so ccer te am ’s backup squad as a youth. “I had to go running around with the n ew sp a p ers" so train in g for a race “w asn ’t a lot o f w ork,” she said. She kept entering, and kept w inning. And she kept delivering new spapers at least part tim e until about two years ago, when she w as 91. A fter w in n in g a se rie s o f local and n atio n al c h a m p io n sh ip s at 200, 400, 800 and 1,500 m e ters, Ig lesias began co m p etin g ab ro ad . She has w on races in Ja p a n , S o u th A fric a , B a rb a d o s, B rita in , A u stra lia , C a n ad a , P u erto R ico and th e U n ited S tates an d p lan s to a tten d n ex t y e a r’s w o rld c h a m p io n sh ip s in Spain. She trains about an hour a day at local parks, driven there by P eralta, w hose work as a train er follow s his chores as a new s vendor and taxi driver. Polls show concerns on jobs and terrorism (AP) — Immigrants take the to limit access for newcomers to POLL jobs local citizens don’t want in their labor markets. some o f the w orld's leading in Poll: How immigrants are viewed Gilles Corman, who monitors dustrial nations, but the new People living in the United States and other countries see immigrants European public opinion for Ipsos, comers are still viewed nega as valued workers, but views on their overall influence differ, AP says immigration is among the top polls found tively, a recent poll found. issues Europeans want dealt with 1. Do you think immigrants In the United States and in 2 What influence do in elections there, behind unem tend to take jobs away from you think Immigrants Britain, France, Germany, Italy ployment. your country s citizens, or are having on the way and Spain - people were more do they take jobs that people things are going in your In one country after another, In your country do not want? likely to say they had negative country? those with more education tended views of the influence o f immi ,$1 Take away jobs H Very good/somewhai good to have the most positive view of Take jobs people don t want grants, according to the AP- Very bad/somewhat bad the influence of immigration. Ipsos polls. The poll findings Britons expressed the strongest come at a time o f high concern negative feelings o f any o f the nine over unemployment, jobs and countries polled. Six in 10 Britons, worries about terrorism. 60 percent, said immigrants are a O f the nine countries polled, bad influence on their country. only the Canadians had a posi About ih » poti About t 0 00 lew leot« oi Bruu n Canada France Germany Italy “The U.K. has historically em Japan Mexico S p an and the United Stales interviewed Iro n . May ' 17, plus or tive view of the influence o f im minus 3 purcentaoe ponts oi tna.q.n p i error lor each country Noi sure response b rac ed d iv e rs ity ,” sa id Sam is not metuded in Sgures migrants, according to the polls McGuire, with Ipsos-UK. He said conducted for the AP by Ipsos, S O U R C t AP tpsos pons *p the high negative ratings may have an international polling firm. The to do with Britons’ fears about the Japanese were divided on the influence of Union has raised fears among longtime EU recent expansion o f the European Union, immigration on their country. members o f a wave of immigration. Many fanned by stories predicting a flood of The recent expansion of the European o f those countries have announced plans immigrants. Another country where residents said they had a fairly negative view of immigra tion was Germany, where 57 percent said immigrants have been a bad influence. W hile people in the United States, Canada, the European Union and Japan generally said immigration provides a work force that takes unwanted jobs, almost half o f Mexicans, whose country has less industrial development than others polled, said they see immigrants as a threat to their own work force. “In spite o f so many Mexicans migrat ing to the United States, M exicans have a harsh view on immigration in general,” said Jorge Buendia o f Ipsos-Bimsa in Mexico. A large majority o f M exicans, 71 per cent, said they think it’s better if almost everyone in a country shares the same customs and traditions. Residents o f the United States dis agreed with that sentiment by a 3 - 1 margin, and the Japanese tended to disagree by a smaller margin rfottnes in A m erica Encylopedia explores pioneers of pop culture (A P )— Tw o Arizona State U niver sity professors have put together a tw o-volum e set o f encyclopedias d e signed to explore the im pact o f D esi A rn az, Je n n ife r L opez an d o th e r L atinos on A m erican pop culture. T he E ncyclopedia o f L atina and L atino P opular C ulture in the United D esi A m a z a n d Lucille Ball s ta r a s R icky a n d Lucy Ricardo in “I Love Lucy" in th is 1 9 5 6 file p h o to . States is designed to give readers a com prehensive look at the diversity am ong L atinos in the U nited States and exam ines pioneers in literature art, m usic, religion, politics, sports and other areas. It is ex pected to be released in the fall. 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