Word: california
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What happened? Contrary to the avalanche of media stories, non-Asian minority students are not being shut out of the University of California. They are, instead and finally, being assigned to campuses that better fit their level of academic preparation...
Radiocarbon experts, however, rebuff both sets of charges. Choosing an unbesmirched area was one of the most important decisions they could have made at the time. Says anthropologist R. Ervin Taylor, director of the radiocarbon-dating lab at the University of California at Riverside: "If they sampled in the wrong place, then they were idiots--and I know that's not the case." Geoscientist Paul Damon, a member of the University of Arizona team that tested one of the 1988 samples, hastens to say that the swatch was selected conscientiously and on the advice of textile experts. Contradicting Adler...
Flynt wants to prove that the obscenity exception to the First Amendment, as defined in the Supreme Court decision in Miller v. California, is bogus. The 1973 case allows local communities to determine what is acceptable. Flynt argues that even in Cincinnati, Americans no longer find much of anything to be obscene. In a society where anything can be downloaded on the Internet, where Bernard Shaw uses the F word on CNN and where one of Jerry Springer's most popular returning guests is a porn star famous for having sex with 300 people in one day, what can possibly...
...stage show Disney has spun off from its 1994 animated smash) that blends audience participation with tumbling, stilt-walking, Cirque du Soleil-style big-topicality. In Dinoland U.S.A. there's a dinosaur thrill ride, Countdown to Extinction, that uses the technology of the popular Indiana Jones ride in Disneyland, California. But the best spectacles are the ones visitors create, discover or stumble into on their...
...other new-era African leaders understand the need for Africans to shape their own destinies, creating self-sustaining countries. The bipartisan African Growth and Opportunity Act promises to further this progress by encouraging economic reforms and promoting mutually beneficial trade with the U.S. ED ROYCE, U.S. Representative 39th District, California Washington...