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China pollution may hold silver lining for California
BEIJING — As Gov. Jerry Brown tours some of China's economic hubs this week, he is breathing the kind of heavy, soiled air that blanketed Los Angeles decades ago. The soot and smog that are byproducts of this country's industrial progress are...
Tags: Government, Passenger Cars, Plant Openings, Environmental Cleanup, Conservation
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Title IX law scrutinized as universities cut teams
The men who play baseball and soccer at Towson University, run track at the University of Delaware and wrestle, swim or golf at any number of other colleges all heard the same reason when their teams were cut: Title IX. To meet the federal law's goal of...
Tags: Finance, Economy, Business and Finance, Martin O'Malley, Sports, Teaching and Learning
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Boys' Tennis: CdM too much for Dons
CORONA DEL MAR — Two of Corona del Mar High's talented players showed up to campus to play more tennis on Saturday. Alec Adamson and Pedro Fernandez spent the morning in San Diego and Santa Monica competing in different United States Tennis Assn....Tags: Tennis, Colleges and Universities, California Interscholastic Federation
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Belgian students tour Imperial Valley agricultural producers
Staff WriterThe scale, productivity and efficiency of the Imperial Valley’s agricultural production can, perhaps, be best appreciated through the observations of the agriculture students and educator from Belgium that toured the area Friday. “It’...Tags: Students, Teaching and Learning, Belgium, Colleges and Universities
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At UC San Francisco, 150 surgeries canceled because of strike
SAN FRANCISCO -- A strike by patient-care workers concerned about pension changes and staffing levels has led to the cancellation of an expected 150 surgeries at UC San Francisco Medical Center over the two-day labor action and will affect at least...
Tags: Michael Jackson, Hospitals and Clinics, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, AFSCME
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Gabrielle Wirth
Gabrielle Wirth is a partner at Dorsey & Whitney LLP. Her litigation practice has an emphasis on complex employment litigation and class actions including sexual harassment, race, age, sex and disability discrimination, wrongful discharge, wage and hour,...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Employment, Sex Crimes, Medical Procedures and Tests, Labor Legislation
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Gun control: How California can teach everyone else
Like a lot of people who follow the gun debate, I was surprised to learn earlier this year that for more than a decade, Congress has made it nearly impossible for our premier federal health research institutions to study gun violence. That became...Tags: Health, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Firearms, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Lacing up for Walk out of Poverty
Parisa Esfahani's heart swells every time she learns of Orange County residents participating in community programs focused on alleviating poverty. A three-time participant in Concern America's Walk out of Poverty, Parisa, 18, of Costa Mesa, recalls her...Tags: Schools, High Schools, Roman Catholicism, Christianity, Religion and Belief
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Everyone on Earth is related to everyone else, DNA shows
The history of Europe is written in its people's DNA. The Huns and the Slavs made incursions into Eastern Europe about 1,500 years ago. Migrants moved from Ireland to England in recent centuries. Populations in Italy and Spain have been comparatively...
Tags: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Medical Research, Chemical Industry, Biology, Italy
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Immigration: A wider better welcome mat
As an immigrant and an engineer, I know the magnetic pull that the United States exerts on anyone who dreams of a career in science. From the time I watched NASA technicians on television during the first lunar landing in 1969, I resolved to get the...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Teaching and Learning, Career and Workplace, DREAM Act, University of California, Irvine
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There was what in Gatorade?
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When PepsiCo Inc. announced it would stop putting an obscure vegetable oil in its Gatorade right before the Super Bowl, one of the loudest cheers came from a high school student who had made it her mission to get rid of the...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Health and Safety at School, European Union, Richard Nixon, Boneless Lean Beef Trimmings
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UCI foes know to fear fro
There are the statistics, the persona, the heroics and the tenacity that all combine to define Mike Wilder's four-year UC Irvine men's basketball career. But any discussion of the 6-foot-2 senior swing man, whose status as big man on campus is as...
Tags: Big West Conference, Teaching and Learning, Students, Sports, UC Irvine Anteaters
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