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UC Davis professor Daniel Sperling wins Blue Planet Prize
Daniel Sperling, a UC Davis civil engineering professor and international transportation expert, has won the Blue Planet Prize. The prize, given annually by the Asahi Glass Foundation of Tokyo, comes with an award of about $500,000. It recognizes...
Tags: Weather, Technology, Conservation, Science, Environmental Issues
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Skelton: California needs crackdown on bullets
California already has some of the toughest gun laws in the country. Now George Skelton says it needs to apply the same approach to bullets. "Guns don't kill people. Bullets do," he writes in his Monday column. The latest example of the problem,...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Politics, Interior Policy, Gun Control
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Schools with fewer needy students decry California funding change
Ah Ram Kim is a 17-year-old high school student learning to read English at a first-grade level with the book "The Little Red Hen." Newly arrived from South Korea, she is one of 170 students, who are from Mexico, Vietnam, Egypt, Japan, Pakistan, Sri...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Jerry Brown, Students, Finance, Stanford University
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Lawmakers should close bullet-buying loophole
From what I've been reading, the Santa Monica killer was packing an illegal assault rifle and 40 high-capacity ammunition magazines. He sprayed 100 bullets and had access to 1,300. And, oh yes, he was a mental case. The guy's exact background and...
Tags: Kevin de Leon, Periodicals, Republican Party, Interior Policy, Firearms
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Rifle in Santa Monica shooting was pieced together, sources say
The semiautomatic weapon used in the Santa Monica shooting rampage appears to have been put together from various parts, possibly in an attempt to circumvent the state’s restrictions on such guns, law enforcement sources said Wednesday. Although...
Tags: Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Interior Policy, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Firearms, Weaponry
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The benefits of immigration reform
As an economist, an immigrant and a scholar of the effects of immigration on the U.S. economy, I find that few pieces of legislation have engaged me more than the proposal for comprehensive immigration reform that the full Senate will take up this week....
Tags: Productivity, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Personal Data Collection, Interior Policy
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Did menopause arise because men prefer younger women?
Thanks a lot, guys: According to new research, your preference for younger mates could have caused menopause to arise in women. Writing in the journal PLOS Computational Biology on Thursday, a team from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, reported...
Tags: Physical Conditions, Menopause, Science, Biology, Science and Technology
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Santa Monica shooter's rifle appears to have been pieced together
The semiautomatic weapon used in the Santa Monica shooting rampage appears to have been put together from various parts, possibly in an attempt to circumvent the state's restrictions on such guns, law enforcement sources said Wednesday. While certain...
Tags: Periodicals, Interior Policy, Firearms, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Gun Control
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Rifle used in Santa Monica College shooting may have been altered
The rifle a gunman used to kill five people during a rampage in Santa Monica last week appears to have been modified accommodate large-capacity magazines. During the assault, John Zawahri, 23, had 40 magazines capable of holding 30 rounds each,...
Tags: Interior Policy, Firearms, John Zawahri, Gun Control, Weaponry
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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: Hybrid Vehicles, Career and Workplace, DREAM Act, Students, Interior Policy
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Showing the IRS some love after witch hunt
You may not have discerned this through the fog and mist of recent weeks, but the Internal Revenue Service is pretty durn good at its job. Some experts would go further. "I think they do an extraordinary job, considering that they're historically...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Darrell E Issa, Pension and Welfare, Interior Policy, Personal Income
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Are there too few great white sharks off California?
It's a mystery of the sea: How many great white sharks are prowling near California's surf lines? Some scientists say the population is large and healthy. Others say it is alarmingly small. No one has ever known for certain, but the question has...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Endangered Species, Wildlife, Museum of Natural History, Stanford University
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