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Heinrich Rohrer dies at 79; a father of nanotechnology
The electron microscope revolutionized biology in the 1930s by providing magnifications thousands of times higher than that of light microscopes, allowing scientists to discern the inner workings of cells for the first time. But it was not nearly as...
Tags: Zurich (Swiss Confederation), Technology, Electronics, IBM, Nobel Prize Awards
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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: Environmental Issues, Science and Technology, Politics, Conservation, Mitt Romney
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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: Employees, Layoffs and Downsizing, Insurance, University of California, Berkeley, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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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, Moscow (Russia), Entertainment, Music, Culture
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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: Teachers, Interior Policy, Migration, Politics, Barack Obama
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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: Human Rights, University of California, Riverside, Teaching and Learning, Elections, Students
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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: Higgs Boson Search, Science and Technology, Science, Applied Physics, Large Hadron Collider Experiments
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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: Politics, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Voting, Minority Groups
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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: Personal Weapon Control, Rick Warren, Interior Policy, Gun Control, Suicide
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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, Electronics, Politics, Government
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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: Palestine, University of California, Berkeley, Politics, Human Rights, University of California, Riverside
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