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...game was a little bit different this weekend than it normally is,” the Alameda, Calif. native said. “I hit more greens than I usually do...[Saturday] I was getting a little frustrated because I had many more putts than normal. I had 36 putts, and then none of them were really dropping...Thankfully, I was striking the ball pretty well, so that made...
...downtown Los Angeles, just east of Little Tokyo, one of the only active construction sites is a 53-unit apartment building at Alameda and 4th Street. Valentin Marquez, 41, father of four, does foundation and concrete work. Before this job he says he was out of work for a year. He is now struggling to keep his house. "The company I worked for for 18 years went bankrupt," he says. His colleague, Alonzo Chavez, 34, worked for the same contractor and then took a job in a burrito factory at minimum wage. Both non-union men, hands gray with concrete...
Perhaps the most commonly cited paper is one by researchers at Columbia University, which associated a mother's influenza with her child's risk of mental illness. In that landmark study, researchers collected blood samples from 12,000 pregnant women in Alameda County, California, between 1959 and 1966 and monitored their sons and daughters for more then three decades. Children born to women who had been infected with flu were three to seven times more likely to develop schizophrenia later in life, the study concluded. (See the top 5 swine...
...third-year golfer from Alameda, California did not need to make many adjustments after pacing the Crimson with a five-over par 76 in the first round of competition. But Kabasakalis did indeed improve in her second tour of the Elis’ home course, shooting a team-best two-over par 73 to finish up Saturday’s play...
...little side story for my Boston readership: When I got to Oakland Alameda Coliseum—which I discovered is actually McAfee Coliseum (oops)—I got a little lost navigating the press area and stumbled across the weight room where I found Kevin Millar (now with the Jays) introducing a family to Nomar Garciaparra (now with...