Word: california
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first-year Harvard sociologist, who arrived this year from the University of California at Los Angeles, emphasized that continued progress in race relations is sorely needed...
...think that California offers us a last chance of redemption," MacPherson said. "If we do well in California, which everyone wants to do, it will vault us into what we want to do. We need big wins and these games can offer us that." HARVARD 0 CENTRAL CONN. 1 Central Connecticut, 1-0 at Silfen Field, Central Connecticut CCSU 0 0 1 0 -- 1 Harvard...
...victim was a woman in her late 60s or early 70s who, in despair, had pointed a pistol at her chest and pulled the trigger. As she lay in the emergency room of a small hospital in California's Central Valley, her condition presented no great medical challenge; it was fairly straightforward compared with many of the messy youth shootings that confront E.R. doctors nowadays. Yet the woman's attempted suicide proved to be an epiphany for the young physician who attended her. It not only altered his life and career but also would affect countless other victims of gunshot...
Today Wintemute is a professor of epidemiology and preventive medicine at the University of California at Davis medical school, and he continues to put in 12-hour tours in the emergency room. But much of his energy goes into leading a crusade against the "national epidemic" of gun violence--which, with 35,000 deaths a year, he says, "ranks among the top-10 killers of Americans, after cancer, heart disease and automobile deaths." It is an extremely costly epidemic too; the annual bill for treating gunshot wounds inflicted only in assaults is more than $63 billion...
Cheng says she started her research last January when a lab in California sent her some DNA for study. She says that most of her time in the lab is spent working with tissue cultures and proteins...