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	Making Minorities Count Using unadjusted data from the 1990 U.S. Census, minorities comprise 43% of California's total population. However, with adjustments to the Census using sampling data, the minority population jumps to 76% of California. Source: Census Monitoring Board. By Neela Banerjee Whether or not to adjust for the damaging undercount of racial and ethnic minorities in the 2000 census is quickly shaping up to be one of the major civil rights issues of the new millennium. Statistical agencies, civil rights organizations and community groups are all pushing for the use of sampling, along with the raw data from the head count, to give a more accurate picture of the American population. COMPLETE STORY...		Community Groups Push to Adjust U.S. Census for Minority Undercount (in National News) Help Rico: Eight-year-old Leukemia Patient Needs Bone Marrow Donor (in Bay Area News) Forecasting Asia's Economy in 2001 (in Business) The Wonderful World of Jason Shiga (in A&E) Emil Amok: Bush's First Days (in Opinion)

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National Monument Status Stirs Memories — and Controversy Former internee recalls life in Japanese American internment camp By Melanie Carroll/AP Seichi Hayashida remembers the 1943 train ride from Seattle to the Japanese American internment camp in south-central Idaho. “We traveled only at night,” Hayashida, a second-generation American said. “The blinds were drawn so no one could see in or out.” Hayashida, 81, of Caldwell, was one of 120,000 people of Japanese descent who were interned at the Minidoka Relocation Center and nine other similar sites during the anti-Japanese hysteria that followed the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. COMPLETE STORY...

Businessman Claims He Gave Money to U.S. Diplomat: A New Jersey businessman may have illegally solicited help in 1994. Australian Universities Accused of Favoritism: Bribery claims spark fears of an anti-Asian backlash. Unanswered Questions: Man sues police over the handling of his sister’s suicide. Sumo Champ Steps Down: Akebono, sumo’s first foreign-born grand champion, retires. Phillipine President Estrada Falls: Former action movie star ousted. Here Comes the Bride: Pulitzer winning writer marries fellow American in Indian wedding. SUNY Wrestler Involved in Another Assault: 19-year-old who assaulted a Korean American student last year is charged with another unrelated assault. Washington Journal: Inaugural Musings. Columnist Phil Tajitsu Nash on how Bush’s beginnings have been accompanied by setbacks for Asian Americans.

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