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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: Medical Research, Teaching and Learning, Hybrid Vehicles, Education, Politics
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California oil tax push would direct new funds to schools
The Sacramento BeeJust months after California voters passed Proposition 30 to stave off education cuts, a push is under way to ensure that the next stream of higher education funding flows out of the ground. The idea of an oil severance tax has been bubbling for years,...Tags: Citizens Initiative and Recall, Teaching and Learning, Education, Politics, Business Enterprises
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MHS grads urged to find what makes them unique, make a mark on the world
The Daily Republic, Mitchell, S.D.Mitchell High's student speakers Austen Iverson and Brady Dice offered advice to their fellow students that urged individuality and development of courage to follow their own personal visions. Unlike most schools, which bring in outside speakers to...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Education, Animals, Students
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Jerry Brown says new Bay Bridge won't open 'unless it's ready'
BERKELEY -- Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday he was "digging deeply into" the questions surrounding the safety of the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and said he could not commit to a scheduled Labor Day opening for the new span. "I take it very...Tags: Politics, Regional Authority, Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Arts and Culture, Government
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Fed's Williams does not comment on economic outlook, policy
Reuters(Reuters) - San Francisco Federal Reserve President John Williams did not comment on the outlook for the U.S. economy or monetary policy in an address on Monday to students graduating from the University of California, Berkeley. Although the U.S. economy...Tags: Federal Reserve, Money and Monetary Policy
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UC Berkeley commencement: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak gives graduates a happiness equation
The Oakland TribuneApple-co-founder Steve Wozniak sent UC Berkeley graduates into the world Saturday with a freewheeling and informal commencement speech -- and two mathematical formulas a fifth-grader could understand: 1) Happiness equals S minus F (smiles minus frowns)....Tags: Teaching and Learning, Stanford University, Steve Jobs, Human Interest, Graduation
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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: Crime, Law and Justice, Shootings, Los Angeles Police Department, Theft, Jack in the Box Incorporated
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At San Jose's Overfelt High, miracles to parade at graduation
San Jose Mercury NewsAt every graduation, miracles march across the stage. This year, one of them will be Cesar Torres. At the end of his freshman year at Overfelt High, Torres had six F's and one D. He went downhill from there. "I messed up," he said -- until he...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Awards and Prizes, Science and Technology, Financial Aid, Students
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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: Teaching and Learning, Education, FBI, Colleges and Universities, Ronald Reagan
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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: Teaching and Learning, Education, Human Interest, Colleges and Universities, California State University, Northridge
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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...
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Longtime coach of West High speech team dies
The Bakersfield CalifornianDonald Joseph Vettel 1946-2013 Don Vettel, an award-winning speech and debate coach at West High School, died on Tuesday. He was 67. Vettel began teaching at West in 1971 and oversaw the school's speech and debate team from 1973 to 2003 except for a...Tags: University of California, Santa Barbara
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