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UC seeks public input on hiring university's next president
L.A. NOWHave any thoughts about who should be the next president of the University of California or what that person should do to help the 10-campus system? Now you have a formal place to post your nominations, comments and opinions. A...... -
Regents panel starts meeting in search for a new UC president
L.A. NOWThe University of California took the first tentative steps on Tuesday toward finding a successor to UC system President Mark G. Yudof. A special committee of UC regents conferred privately by telephone from their locations in Los Angeles, Riverside and..... -
The basics of better schools
The bile flowed freely in the first round of L.A.'s school board elections in March, fueled by unprecedented sums of campaign money. To what end? Listening to the ads of the self-styled reformers, you'd have thought that charter schools were the...
Tags: Examinations, Los Angeles Unified School District, Politics, Teaching and Learning, Elections
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L.A. Philharmonic's young composers program fine-tunes talent
It wasn't B.J. Thomas, exactly, but musical raindrops seemed to be falling in a white-walled rehearsal room next to Walt Disney Concert Hall, courtesy of Milo Talwani, one of the L.A. composers least likely to write melody, let alone ear candy, into a...
Tags: The Washington Post, Theater, Music Industry, Orange County High School of the Arts, Entertainment Events
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Setting Times' stories to music: Dusty Springfield, Bob Dylan
Some people wonder if I can really work with music blaring on my headphones--especially music with distracting lyrics. But my brain is hard-wired a different way: The lyrics inspire me, and help the creativity kick in. It’s like this amplification...
Tags: High School Sports, Oakland Athletics, Entertainment, Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Diana Ross
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Apopka High student wins national award for editorial on school lunches
Sentinel School ZoneRachel Armstrong's article published in The Insight, Apopka High's student newspaper, is blunt about the problem she sees with school food: "The food that is supposedly nutritious-such as salads, sits on the shelves while items such as pizza and chicken...Tags: Education, Teaching and Learning, Apopka, Stetson University, Earth Day
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PASSINGS: Donald A. Glaser, Jewel Akens
Donald A. Glaser Nobel Prize-winning physicist Donald A. Glaser, 86, a Nobel Prize-winning UC Berkeley physicist who invented a device called the bubble chamber, which allowed researchers to track the paths of high-energy atomic particles after...
Tags: University of Michigan, Nobel Prize Awards, Entertainment Events, Science and Technology, Human Accomplishments
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Hungry for a group to safely deliver leftover food to charities
On a recent evening, students at Pomona College feasted on chicken pot pie, steamed veggies, biscuits and rice. And, as is often the case, there were plenty of leftovers in the dining hall, enough for about 100 extra meals. Those leftovers, however,...Tags: University of Texas at Austin, Social Services, Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Charity
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Apodaca: College myths debunked
This week: March Madness, Part Two. Following a big response to last week's column about college admissions, I now return to the topic with some words of wisdom from someone who has built a career helping students and their parents navigate through the...Tags: Education, Teaching and Learning, University of California, Irvine, University of California, Los Angeles, Colleges and Universities
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Key Senate panel to consider Medi-Cal expansion
SACRAMENTO -- A key Senate panel will consider legislation Wednesday that would dramatically expand Medi-Cal, the state's public insurance program for the poor. The proposal, authored by state Sen. Ed Hernandez (D-West Covina) and Senate leader...
Tags: Politics, Darrell Steinberg, Jerry Brown, Barack Obama, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Lawyers scramble for patients of accused Hopkins gynecologist
One law firm has rented out a conference room in the downtown Hilton and invited patients of a Johns Hopkins gynecologist to discuss their legal options. Other firms are taking out newspaper ads, urging his patients to contact them. Others are asking...
Tags: Medical Specialization, Rentals, Justice System, Gynecology, Legal Service
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On eve of Super Bowl, football caught between a rock and hard tackle
One afternoon in early January, I took a tour of the refurbished Memorial Stadium in Berkeley with a pair of architects from the firm HNTB. For me it was a visit brimming with nostalgia: I grew up about three miles north of the stadium, in the Berkeley...
Tags: CBS Corp., Pacific-12 Conference, Baltimore Ravens, ESPN (tv network), Memorial Stadium
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