California | Local |
By S and Y Banks |
October 7, 2008
My Saturday column – about a campaign by college admissions counselors to scale back reliance on the
SAT – reflected the angst of high school students, jostling for spots at space-crunched universities.
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California | Local |
By S and Y Banks |
September 23, 2008
I don’t know what Aunt Flo thought about my Saturday column, and its not-so-subtle attempt to nudge her toward the ranks of computer literati.
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Entertainment |
By S and Y Cohen |
September 1, 2008
The competition among television networks, movie studios and A-list stars can be fierce, but the fight against cancer will unite them on Friday.
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As a tired California public school mother who receives no support from the New America Foundation and is not an Irvine senior fellow anywhere, perhaps Joe Mathews’ wonky cover piece, “The Mystery of Prop.
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In May 2007, Victoria Arellano, a 23-year-old transgender immigrant from Mexico, was sent to a detention center in San Pedro after being arrested on a traffic charge.
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Few people have the perspective of Dr.
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The patient, in her early 20s, had red hair, pretty features and a disarming sincerity.
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“Iam an invisible man,” says the nameless protagonist of the Ralph
Ellison novel of that title, lamenting an American bias that
minimizes blackness.
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How fast an older person walks may predict long-term survival,
report researchers at the University of Pittsburgh who found that
faster walkers were substantially more likely to outlive the slowest.
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Elementary school children who don’t get enough sleep in third
grade are more likely than their peers to be overweight in sixth
grade, according to a large study believed to be the first to examine
the relationship between excess fat and sleep in children.
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