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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: Colleges and Universities, Belgium, Teaching and Learning, Students
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Congressman brings common sense to gun control debate
SACRAMENTO — As the national firearms debate reaches a crescendo, a Northern California congressman is proving that you can be both a gun lover and a gun controller. Rep. Mike Thompson of St. Helena, a moderate "blue dog" Democrat who represents...
Tags: Firearms, Elections, Substance Abuse, Viniculture, Politics
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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: Medical Procedures and Tests, Employment Opportunities, Sex Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials
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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: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Firearms, Los Angeles Times Journalists, Research, Kathleen Sebelius
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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, Roman Catholicism, Christianity, Social Issues, Poverty
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UC faculty leaders blast legislation on online education expansion
L.A. NOWIn a crossing of swords between academics and politicians, the University of California’s top two faculty leaders on Friday strongly criticized legislation that would allow students bumped from overcrowded core courses at state schools to instead... -
Long Beach State grinds out win over Cal State Fullerton
Top-seeded Long Beach State versus injury-ravaged Cal State Fullerton went just as you might expect a game with that billing would go. Fullerton's Titans were tenacious enough in Thursday night's opening round of the Big West Conference tournament. They...
Tags: Big Ten Conference, Sports, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Pacific Tigers, Basketball
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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: Food and Drug Administration, Colleges and Universities, Food Industry, Consumer Goods Industries, Research
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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: Sports, California State University, Long Beach, University of California, Santa Barbara, University of California, Irvine, Basketball
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Men's Basketball: UCI's Folker dreaming big
Its no fluke that UC Irvine senior Adam Folker is a marketing whiz who has already organized and overseen a handful of companies and dozens of employees. He is, after all, a master at maximizing opportunity. In five years with the Anteaters men's...
Tags: Sports, College Sports, University of California, Irvine, Basketball, UC Irvine Anteaters
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More gun laws = fewer deaths, 50-state study says
CHICAGO (AP) — It's a study everyone is talking about today because the statistics are so dramatic: States with the most gun control laws have a 42 percent lower gun death rate than states with the least number of gun control laws, according to a...
Tags: Research, Murder, Suicide, Politics, U.S. Congress
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More gun laws equals fewer deaths, 50-state study says
CHICAGO (AP) — States with the most gun control laws have the fewest gun-related deaths, according to a study that suggests sheer quantity of measures might make a difference. But the research leaves many questions unanswered and won't settle...
Tags: Research, Murder, Suicide, Politics, U.S. Congress
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Mar 14, 2013
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