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Oakland police struggle to rebuild — using fewer resources
OAKLAND — It was a quiet evening by this city's standards, and still the police emergency lines were lighting up. As screams rang out behind her, a caller said her neighbor was being beaten. A woman reported that a front door down the street had...
Tags: Murder, Jack in the Box Incorporated, Layoffs and Downsizing, Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz al Saud, Prosecution
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Reagan the Berkeley basher
Responding to Seth Rosenfeld's May 10 Op-Ed article linking then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan's harsh condemnation of student protests in the 1960s to the eventual decline of the University of California system, reader Bruce Bates wrote in a letter...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Students, Ronald Reagan, Education, Teaching and Learning
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Students raised in foster system honored for completing college
Soon they’ll walk across stages at college campuses around Southern California, accepting their degrees and celebrating with classmates. But at a smaller, more low-key event on Friday, they were honored with a closer set of peers: fellow foster...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Schools, Students, High Schools, Education
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NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope disabled
Planet-hunting scientists were dealt a major blow Wednesday when NASA officials announced that a crucial wheel on the Kepler space telescope had ceased to function and that the craft had been placed in safe mode. Even as NASA officials raised the...Tags: Science, Science and Technology, NASA
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BMI measuring in schools proves weighty issue
Like other fourth-graders at Evanston's King Laboratory School, Jennifer Dreller's daughter was discreetly weighed during gym class as part of a routine fitness assessment. But the experience took a toll on the 10-year-old's self-esteem, her mother...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Teachers, Teaching and Learning, American Heart Association, Heart Disease
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RPT-ANALYSIS-Obama climate agenda faces U.S. Supreme Court reckoning
Reuters(Repeats with no changes) By Lawrence Hurley and Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - With a barrage of legal briefs, a coalition of business groups and Republican-leaning states are taking their fight against Obama administration climate...Tags: Ecosystems, Barack Obama, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, U.S. Senate, Lawyers
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Katherine L. Vaughns
Katherine L. Vaughns, a University of Maryland School of Law professor and secretary of the Center Stage board who immersed herself in the arts community, died of pancreatic cancer May 4 at a Sinai Hospital hospice unit. The Bolton Hill resident was 68....
Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Lawyers, Justice System, Pancreatic Cancer, Teaching and Learning
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COLUMN-Four ways to avoid bad decisions during a bull run
ReutersBy John Wasik CHICAGO, May 15 (Reuters) - Is the Dow's movement above 15,000 or the record close of the S&P 500 Index last week a buy signal? They may not mean anything, but most market watchers believe the rise is talismanic. Despite the lure of recent...Tags: S&P 500, Economy, Business and Finance, Nobel Prize Awards, Finance, Mutual Funds
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Your brain on baseball: How hitters see a 95-mph fastball
Swing, batter, batter! In less time than it takes to say that phrase, Major League Baseball sluggers have their bat across the plate, and the best of them are golfing the shot over the outfield wall. How does the brain "know" when to swing?...
Tags: National League Championship Series, Philadelphia Phillies, Jonathan Broxton, Baseball, Science and Technology
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UC acceptance rate of California seniors at record low
The chances of in-state high school seniors gaining admission to the University of California worsened this year, as more of them applied and the number accepted dropped 2.2%, according to data released Thursday. Meanwhile, the ranks of out-of-staters and...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Students, Human Accomplishments, Education, Teaching and Learning
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A part of the brain does more than expected, say U. of C. scientists
Scientists at the University of Chicago have found that a section of the primate brain is able to categorize visual information at the same time it can locate and identify things that the primate sees. This finding will help researchers understand how...
Tags: Science and Technology, Medical Research, University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Junk-food tax idea is gaining weight
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer"Sin taxes" on cigarettes have turned out to be the most effective weapon in the campaign to reduce smoking. Why not try it on Flamin' Hot Cheetos, vanilla Coke and Twinkies? With increasing vigor, public health experts and think tanks are calling for...Tags: Health Care Reform (2009), Weight Loss, Maine, Corruption, David Paterson
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