Word: california
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...Jesse Jackson is calling a march in Sacramento, Calif. to rally forces in defense of Affirmative Action. This march will take place at a time when the Supreme Court is deciding whether or not to rule on the constitutionality of that state's Proposition 209. In addition, University of California Berkeley students are organizing during this month to force the U.C. Regents to rescind their decision to eliminate Affirmative Action from undergraduate admissions...
...think of anyone who thinks that," objects Patricia Churchland, a philosopher at the University of California, San Diego. "Of course, there is an evolutionary basis for the mind. The tricky part is to figure out how it all works...
...really dangerous? Maybe not. The British government decided not to closely restrict ketamine because it could not prove that K's effects were severe. Most drug-overdose deaths result from circulatory or respiratory failure, and ketamine doesn't usually depress these functions. Dr. Alex Stalcup, medical director of a California drug-treatment center, says the effects of K are "basically like being really, really drunk. It's really not a demon, not compared with the other stuff we're seeing with kids now," including smokable versions of heroin and speed...
Rampersad methodically retraces the amazing story of Robinson's transition from a local Southern California hero, albeit with paltry prospects after college, into the man who broke the unstated but implacable color line in major league baseball and changed American race relations forever. First from his mother, and later from a black Methodist minister who befriended him in his troubled adolescence, Jackie imbibed the belief that God had plans for him. Sure enough, an implausible design took shape. Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, plucked Robinson out of the obscurity of the Negro league Kansas City Monarchs...
...that role into alliances with local Teamsters officials around the U.S., including some who were later purged during Carey's tenure because of corruption. And Hoffa's support "wasn't confined to the union's old guard," says Harley Shaiken, professor and labor-relations specialist at the University of California, Berkeley. It also reflected the Teamsters' unhappiness with its own place, slipping in the economy...