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Do Obama's small biceps explain his liberal politics?
Here’s a scientific news flash about our recent presidential election: You could assume that President Obama was more kindly disposed to redistribution of wealth than Mitt Romney just by looking at them. Not because Obama is African American and...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Science and Technology, Politics, Barack Obama, Environmental Issues
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Letters: It's UC, not McDonald's
Re "Brown urges UC to speed graduations," May 16 Over the 15 years I have taught at UC Santa Barbara, I have seen repeated budget cuts and tuition increases. And yet most students are graduating in four years, not six. I am not sure what Gov. Jerry...Tags: Politics, Government, Jerry Brown
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Part-timers to lose pay amid health act's new math
Los Angeles TimesMany part-timers are facing a double whammy from President Obama's Affordable Care Act. The law requires large employers offering health insurance to include part-time employees working 30 hours a week or more. But rather than provide healthcare to more...Tags: Barack Obama, Employment Opportunities, Labor Markets, Healthcare Laws, Lawyers
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Review: Jennifer Koh shows her own genius with Bach program
With Montecito magically misted by a surprising spring drizzle Wednesday night, Jennifer Koh went, for a second time, beyond Bach. The violinist's awe-inspiring solo recital at the Music Academy of the West's Hahn Hall was the latest installment in her...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Music, Culture, Entertainment, Moscow (Russia)
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Teacher pays it forward on immigrant's path to education
Itzel Ortega should have been bursting with the good news. Instead, her eyes filled with tears as she confided in her former English teacher. She had just been accepted to the architecture program at Cal Poly Pomona. But she wasn't eligible for...
Tags: Students, Politics, Barack Obama, Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice
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UC Berkeley student leaders urge UC to divest from some firms
Elected student leaders at UC Berkeley passed a resolution early Thursday that urged the UC system to divest from companies said to profit from anti-Palestinian Israeli policies. The controversial resolution was passed in the student government’...Tags: University of California, Riverside, Teaching and Learning, Students, Elections, Human Rights
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Cosmology's future lies with the dark side, Stephen Hawking says
Want to discover the next big breakthrough in cosmology? Turn to the dark side, says renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. “The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy,” Hawking said Tuesday night...
Tags: Cosmology, Large Hadron Collider Experiments, Science and Technology, Science, Applied Physics
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School district sued over voting rights issues
A school district in southeastern Los Angeles County is illegally diluting the voting clout of Latinos and barring them from elective office by using an at-large electoral system for school board races, according to a lawsuit filed this week. No Latino...Tags: Trials, Students, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws
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Rick Warren says gun in son's suicide was unregistered
The gun Rick Warren’s son used to kill himself was unregistered and purchased on the Internet, the pastor tweeted Thursday afternoon. Warren’s tweet read: Someone on the internet sold Matthew an unregistered gun.I pray he seeks God's...
Tags: Suicide, Politics, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Rick Warren
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Hackers ridicule LAPD on USC digital traffic sign
An electronic sign near USC whose display was changed to flash inappropriate messages about the Los Angeles Police Department was unlocked and the message altered using a control panel, the USC police chief said Thursday. Various pictures of the sign...Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Science and Technology, Politics, Government, Electronics
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UC Santa Barbara student leaders vote down divestment resolution
This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details Elected student leaders at UC Santa Barbara voted down a resolution early Thursday that would have urged the UC system to divest from companies said to profit from anti-Palestinian...Tags: University of California, Riverside, Palestine, Raytheon Company, Teaching and Learning, Politics
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How the relationship between employers and workers changed
Decades ago, many workers spent their whole lives at the same job, retiring with a full pension, and maybe even a gold watch from their boss. Now, almost no one works at the same place for life, and there’s much less loyalty between employers...
Tags: Walmart, Job Layoffs, Layoffs and Downsizing, Labor Legislation, Employment Opportunities
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