Word: calif
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...overall winner of this year's contest is Dan Cray, 18, of Wofford Heights, Calif., for his national-events entry, "Free Enterprise Reaches the Final Frontier," a 675-word story on the new business of rocketing the ashes of the dead into space. Cray, who graduated from Kern Valley High School in Lake Isabella, Calif., last week, is an aspiring journalist and plans to attend Santa Monica College...
Queso Fresco and Cotija are household words in many Hispanic homes, particularly in Los Angeles. The two south-of-the-border-style cheeses are made by the Jalisco Mexican Products Inc. plant in Artesia, Calif., whose major markets are in nine Western states. But 22 deaths or stillbirths in Los Angeles County have been linked to the soft white cheeses, which federal health officials say were contaminated with the deadly and fast-acting bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. In virtually all of the 94 confirmed cases, Hispanics have been the victims...
...Cambridge is really neat. I read about all this historical stuff growing up, about the revolutionary war, and now I just get off the subway and here it all is," said Hugh J. Murphy, a resident of Santa Rose, Calif who stopped by the new information booth one day last week, laden with backpack, to find out where he could stay while doing temporary work in Cambridge...
DIED. James Martin Frustaci, 17 days, the third of Patti and Sam Frustaci's twelve-week-premature septuplets to succumb; of cardiopulmonary arrest as a result of hyaline membrane disease, which afflicts many premature babies, including all the surviving Frustaci infants; in Orange, Calif. One of the seven, a girl, was stillborn; another died of lung disease in his third day, and another girl is not expected to live. The other three are said to be "showing daily improvement...
...Washington Post Executive Editor BEN BRADLEE at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif.: "In its lay -- or nongovernmental -- form, press bashing is most apt to show up in the form of libel suits. The Philadelphia Inquirer has no less than 21 libel suits filed against it today. We have had a big one going with the former president of Mobil Oil. Four judges have considered it; two have ruled for him and two for us, but unfortunately for us, the last two were his. It is on appeal now, and our legal bills alone have already topped...