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Q: Why did Gloria Estefan record her wedding song, “El Día Que Me Quieras,” in English? —Lily G., Fort Worth, Tex.

A: “I’ve always thought it would be beautiful in English,” says the Grammy winner, 56. “I loved being able to bring my own experience into the lyrics.” The English version, “The Day You Say You Love Me,” is on her new album, The Standards, out Sept. 10. “I think it’s going to be a killer wedding song!”

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1988, a reminder that this second sec marriage would b be their second cha chance at love. Both bil bills are now part of the collection.

Mickey Kross’s helmet At 10:28 a.m., FDNY lieutenant Mickey Kross was in the third-ﬂoor stairwell of the north tower when he heard a “tremendous roar,” and the building began to crumble. Kross crouched down in a corner. (“I tried

to crawl into my ﬁre helmet … to protect myself,” he recalled.) Hours later, Kross and 15 others climbed out of the rubble— among the few survivors of the collapse.

Robert Gschaar’s property In 2005, Myrta Gschaar felt ready to claim the personal effects of her late husband, who had worked for Aon insurance, from

the NYPD clerk’s ofﬁce. But she was overwhelmed to discover this $2 bill in his wallet. It was one of two that Robert had with him when he proposed to her in

Survivors’ shoes Thousands escaped the towers escap by walk walking down the stairs, tthen ﬂeeing lower M Manhattan on foot. Finance executive Michele Martocci, along with many others, donated the shoes she wore that day to the museum as symbols of the ordeal.

With no narrator and no interviews, the TV special 9-11: The Heartland Tapes (airing tonight) pieces together local media broadcasts about the attacks from around the country, offering a compelling look at how the rest of the nation watched the tragedy unfold. (Smithsonian Channel, 8 p.m. ET/PT)

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One of Welles Crowther’s red bandannas Eight months after her son died in the south tower, Alison Crowther was reading a New York Times story in which survivors described an unidentiﬁed “man in a red handkerchief” who had saved the lives of at least 12 people on the upper ﬂoors. She instantly realized it was her son, 24-year-old equities trader Welles Crowther. Welles had carried a signature red bandanna since he was 6.

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The 9/11 Day of Service will bring together millions of Americans this week to perform good deeds. In Boston, for example, volunteers plan to assemble care packages for homeless vets and service members; in Dallas, a crew will paint and landscape the Texas Fire Museum. To find opportunities in your area, go to 911day.org /volunteer

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By Marilyn vos Savant

I’m an otherwise intelligent person who can handle most situations in life, but put a math problem in front of me and I go blank. Not only that, I immediately turn the page. Even though I’m past school age, I panic! Can you explain? —C.B., Sandwich, Ill.

You’re suffering ordinary anxiety attacks. When episodes are focused on particular causes, they’re called phobias. Maybe you were scared by an equation when you were in ﬁfth grade. Just kidding! But the idea is relevant. Phobias are acquired, and math anxiety is too common to avoid blaming our educational experiences. I think math may be easier to learn than reading when we’re small. It’s straightforward logic and reasoning with numbers attached, whereas reading is a visual code system for an entire language. Yet because reading is much more important for everyone, we focus on it from the beginning and limit our kids’ earliest math exposure to counting, with maybe a little addition and subtraction. So we start late with math, and then we move too fast and, eventually, too far. In grade school, kids often learn operations instead of concepts. In high school, reading skills need mostly content ampliﬁcation and comprehension work, but math gets harder and harder. With this pressure, it isn’t

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enator Marco Rubio of Florida has been called “a Latino Barack Obama” and “the Republican savior.” But to his wife, Jeanette, he’s more like Tom Hanks. On Valentine’s Day 1997, Rubio planned to propose to Jeanette atop the Empire State Building, an idea inspired by her love of the movie Sleepless in Seattle. But it was so cold that day that she didn’t want to go to the observation deck. “I had to lure her there,” Rubio recalls. “I told her, ‘I love King Kong. I’ve always wanted to climb the Empire State Building!’ ” “I was like, ‘Seriously, Marco?’ ” Jeanette says. But up they went, 102 stories above Manhattan, where Rubio got down on one knee. The moment was just as sweet as it sounds, right up to when Jeanette said yes and accepted the ring. “Then he took it back,” she says. “I was afraid she would drop it over the edge of the building,” Rubio explains, laughing. “I said, ‘Let’s wait until we’re on the ground. Then I’ll give it back to you.’ ” Not terribly romantic, maybe, but it’s just the kind of cautious pragmatism that has helped propel Rubio, 42, from his local city commissioner’s ofﬁce to the U.S. Capitol in 12 years. His willingness to take such great leaps is balanced by a careful, thoughtful temperament. As Al Cardenas, the chair of the grassroots American Conservative Union, describes it, Rubio has that rare ability to “think through a number of things at the same time. He’s like those young guys in tech, like Mark Zuckerberg, only he’s in the political arena.”

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This spring Rubio took the biggest calculated risk of his political career when he helped steer comprehensive immigration reform through the Senate. He was criticized by his conservative base for ﬂip-ﬂopping on the issue (during his 2010 Senate run, he’d earned Tea Party support by opposing an earned path to citizenship), but Rubio defends his change of heart. “It’s one thing to consider immigration reform as a theoretical policy issue,” he says,

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“and another to meet real people whose lives are impacted by it. As a senator, I interact with people who flat-out tell you, ‘Look, my kids were hungry. And I am going to do what it takes to feed them.’ You think, ‘If I had been in that position, would I have done something different?’ ” Despite Rubio’s leadership, the Senate bill failed to find support among many of his fellow Republicans in the House, and it’s unclear what will happen with immigration reform this fall. Meanwhile, Rubio’s been busy adopting more conservative stances (a government shutdown over the Affordable Health Care Act; a Senate bill banning abortions after 20 weeks), which have helped maintain his credibility with right-leaning voters. A Q uinnipiac Universit y “thermometer” poll taken in August to measure voters’ attitudes toward the nation’s major political figures found the charismatic and youthful Rubio ranked third in popularity among Republican voters, after Paul Ryan and Ted Cruz. (Chris Christie came in eighth among Republican voters, but first among all voters.) The results make Rubio someone to watch as the 2016 presidential race shapes up, especially with the Republican Party trying to attract the increasingly important Latino vote. Rubio, whom Mitt Romney considered as a 2012 running mate (“Frankly, it probably wasn’t the right thing for me,” he says), is quick to dismiss the idea that he is the GOP’s Great Hispanic Hope: “I don’t think you can nominate someone with a last name that ends in a vowel and expect that all of a sudden Hispanics will flock to them. Voters choose the candidate who stands for what they stand for,

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Rubio, working up a sweat playing hoops with his sons, knows a thing or two about hydration—thanks to his infamous sip of water during his response to the State of the Union address. “In hindsight, it’s one of the things I laugh about,” he says.

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his parents on their wedding day. Jeanette says she’s comfortable with politics as long as it’s about service: “If it becomes about power, I’m not okay with that.”

he also loved Ronald Reagan. He believed that America was the only thing standing between communism and the rest of the world. He really thought America needed to be strong. He had a big inﬂuence on me.” Garcia died in 1984, and the next year, the Rubios returned to Miami—this time seeking greater opportunity for their kids. “You could make

a decent living at a young age working at a hotel in Las Vegas, and they worried we’d end up doing that,” recalls Rubio, who was 14 at the time. “They wanted their kids to have a professional career, the kind they couldn’t have.” That meant going to college. Rubio’s parents never finished high school, and he remembers that homework was one thing they were painfully unable to help him with. “You see that today with immigrant communities. Parents struggle to help their kids because it’s stuff they never learned,” he says. “That’s something I’m sensitive about when I see it in others.” Rubio earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida, then went on to the University of Miami School of Law. After graduating with more than $100,000 in student loans, which he finally paid off in 2012, Rubio planned to “become a really good lawyer, and stay engaged politically.” He was serving as a commissioner of his small city of West Miami (“I joke it’s like a condominium board without the power”) when Florida

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★ CHRIS CHRISTIE GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY “Anyone who hangs around him a little bit ﬁnds it hard not to like him. He’s going to tell you what he believes on issue after issue, and people ﬁnd that refreshing.”

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and who stands with people like them. And I don’t mean like them ethnically; I mean like them in terms of understanding what they’re going through.” Arturo Vargas, executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, points out that Rubio must also convince non-Hispanics that he represents their interests, too: “Rubio won’t run as a Latino candidate; he’s going to run as an American.” If so, the senator’s up-by-the-bootstraps success story should help with all working-class voters, Latino or not. He is the third child of Mario and Oria Rubio, who grew up poor in Cuba and immigrated to Miami in 1956 in search of economic opportunity. (Rubio once claimed his parents were exiles who fled their homeland after Fidel Castro came to power; he revised that story after researching his 2012 memoir, An American Son.) But it was tough for Rubio’s parents to find steady jobs to support a growing family—Mario was a barTHE RUBIOS tender, Oria a cashier— SHARE MORE so in 1979, the family about their decamped to Las Vegas, family life and what where three of Oria’s makes their sisters lived. relationship Rubio’s memories of work at parade.com that period are fond ones: /rubio Pop Warner football (he would later play defensive back for a year at Missouri’s Tarkio College), family dinners at the Circus Circus Hotel’s allyou-can-eat buffet, and Sunday services at the nearby Mormon church. “My mom was really attracted to its wholesome family environment,” says Rubio, who returned to his Roman Catholic roots a few years later. But Rubio’s strongest recollections of Las Vegas involve his maternal grandfather, Pedro Victor Garcia, an autodidact and history lover who often lived with the Rubios. “He would sit on the porch in a folding aluminum chair, smoking a cigar, and I would sit at his feet,” Rubio says. “He was a big fan of both Roosevelt and Truman for winning World War II. And 8 | SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

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balance work and family life, given that he’s in Washington, D.C., most of the week while Jeanette is at home in the family’s middle-class West Miami neighborhood with their four children. “My family helps me a lot,” she says. Her three sisters and Rubio’s mother and older sister live nearby, along with 20 nieces and nephews. (Rubio’s father passed away in 2010.) Jeanette says she spends a lot of time in her Buick Enclave, shuttling the kids between activities. Dominick, 6, and Anthony, 8, play football and basketball. Daniella, 11, rides in horse shows. And Amanda, 13, is a competitive stunt cheerleader. (Like mother, like daughter: Jeanette once cheered for the Miami Dolphins.) All that driving “is bad for our car lease,” Rubio jokes. “We’re always over on the miles.” In the midst of their busy schedules, the Rubios are attempting to teach the kids Spanish. Although both grew up speaking it at home, they speak English to each other. “It’s our first language now,” Jeanette says. Adds Rubio: “We have to force the Spanish with the kids. We try really hard. That’s one of the things I hope we get better at.” Jeanette describes herself as a strict mom. She has vetoed Amanda’s request to wear platform shoes and crop tops and made Daniella sign a pet care contract before she brought home a shih tzu puppy, named Manna after the phrase “manna ONE OF THE GANG Last April on Capitol Hill, Rubio and other members of the from heaven.” “The most impor“gang of eight” spoke to the media tant thing for me is that they about their immigration reform bill. learn respect,” Jeanette says. “They have to make their beds. They have to read during the summer. I can’t stand them being on those video games—they only get to play one hour on the weekend.” When the family has time off, they like to take trips to the Florida Keys on their 24-foot fishing boat. In the future, they hope to be together more often. The Rubios have put their four-bedroom home on the market with the goal of moving to Washington. A spokesperson says no decisions have been made, but Rubio clarifies that “it’s not about moving out of Florida; it’s about being able to go home to your family at night. My most important job isn’t senator. It’s father.” In that role, Rubio hopes to be an example—not only by showing his kids how far they can go in life, but also by helping them remember where their grandparents came from, and by protecting the unique opportunities this country offers. “I do believe that the essence of the American dream is a vibrant middle class and upward mobility, the ability not just to do better yourself but to give your kids the chance to do everything you could not do. That dream is very prevalent in the Hispanic community. To the extent that people view the Republican party as a defender of this dream, I think that’ll be very positive—not just among Hispanics but among all Americans.”

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wo years ago, Lisa Lynn Kotnik awoke with an excruciating headache. The night before, the New Orleans–based jazz and blues singer had been walking home from a gig at a nearby cabaret when she slipped in a dark alleyway, wrenching her neck. Like many musicians, the 44-year-old Kotnik had no health insurance, but instead of simply suffering, she headed to the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic (NOMC), which provides low-cost care to the city’s performers. There, she was referred to a neurologist, and subsequent tests revealed a brain aneurysm. In July 2012, Kotnik had surgery to patch the bulging blood vessel; she was back onstage by Labor Day. “It could have burst at any time or caused a stroke,” says Kotnik. “The clinic saved my life.” Founded 16 years ago, the NOMC is the brainchild of Jack McConnell, M.D., a philanthropist and lifelong music fan (his son, Page, is the keyboardist for the band Phish). He joined forces with a coalition of local groups to create a safety net for the city’s at-risk music community. Today, the NOMC, located near the historic Garden District, treats more than 2,500 musicians and their families

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annually for everything from heart disease to the ﬂu. Photos of local jazz greats adorn the walls of the clinic, which offers a full range of services geared to performers, including diabetes counseling, hearing tests, and referrals to rehab. Though some of the clinic’s patients suffer from serious addictions, it’s not just the rock ’n’ roll lifestyle that poses a health threat. Many musicians lead itinerant hand-to-mouth lives on the ragged edge of poverty—up to 90 percent of them get by on less than $15,000 a year, and four out of ﬁve don’t have health insurance. Patients often haven’t seen a

doctor or a dentist in decades, and since musicians are typically paid in cash, they’re ineligible for Medicaid. “People come in spitting up blood with advanced lung cancer because it wasn’t detected in time,” says Cathi Fontenot, M.D., the NOMC medical director. The clinic was also instrumental when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in August To learn how you can help support the NOMC, go to parade.com/orleans

2005. Though it had to close temporarily, many of the other places that normally hosted the city’s musicians—schools, clubs, hotels, even the streets—were washed away. And in the immediate aftermath, Catherine Lasperches, the clinic’s nurse practitioner, was able to ﬁeld calls from frantic patients and dispense prescriptions over her cell phone, while executive director Bethany Bultman worked to raise money to get the clinic doors open again. That year, the NOMC also established a “gig fund” to help rebuild careers that were shattered by the storm. The fund pays hundreds of musicians $100 apiece to perform at hospitals and homeless shelters and in brass bands that welcome people to the airport. It even helped defray the costs of a truck so a local band could commute to Houston every week. “The fund was a lifeline for a lot of musicians because there was nothing to come back to otherwise,” says blues singer and banjoist Roselyn Lionhart, who was eventually able to return after ﬂeeing the storm thanks to the clinic’s generosity. “Although this city is the birthplace of American music, it can also be an early grave for a lot of musicians,” says Bultman. “We’re trying to prevent ‘death by lifestyle’ and keep the music alive.”

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All five correct answers have something in common. Can you figure out what it is? 1. Despite the Beach Boys’ reputation, Dennis Wilson was the only band member who knew how to do what?

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