Week # 49-98, Air Date 12/6/1998 - 12/12/1998

Segment #1: "DIABETES AMONG HISPANICS" (4:41) Bill Zeeble reports on diabetes, a disease that disproportionately affects Latinos and other minorities.

Subject Types: Health

Segment #2: "HAITIAN AMERICAN AUTHOR EDWIDGE DANTICAT" (3:40) Latino USA's Maria Hinojosa speaks with author Edwidge Danticat about her new novel "The Farming of Bones."

Subject Types: Arts - Literature

Locations: Non-U.S. Regions - Caribbean; Caribbean Countries - Haiti

Segment #3: "TIJUANA MAQUILADORA WORKER" (5:10) Writer Coco Fusco shares one woman's story of working in the border trasnational assembly plants known as maquiladoras.

Subject Types: Economics

Locations: Non-U.S. Regions - Mexico

Segment #4: "CHILDREN'S CROSS-BORDER CYBERSPACE" (5:09) Nancy Greenleese reports on a computer game that allows students from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border to learn more about each other.

Subject Types: Education; Youth

Locations: Non-U.S. Regions - Mexico