Word: california
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, in my four years at a California public high school, I was never assigned a research paper, required to study more than one of Shakespeare's plays per year or asked to perform a chemistry lab more complex than using pipettes to observe chemical reactions. Such a secondary school education pales in comparison to that of more rigorous institutions and, accordingly, some teaching fellows recognize this variability in preparation and take it into consideration when determining their grading scales...
...game hunting takes a variety of forms. Some stalk elephants, others lions, others hippopotamuses. We like large birds. Unfortunately, the law is stacked against us. In California, it is illegal to kill the condor. The bald eagle is a protected species. Where Uncle Sam doesn't intrude, we face other obstacles. Hawks are quick and wily. Turkeys are too slow...
...personal favorite is the University of California-Santa Cruz...
Since passage of the Economic Espionage Act, only 13 criminal cases have gone to indictment. In December two men were sentenced for scheming to sell Intel prototype microchips to rival Cyrix, and most recently a California man, David Kern, was charged with stealing engineering secrets from his former employer, Varian Associates, a leading Silicon Valley maker of radiotherapy systems used to treat cancer. For more than a year, a federal grand jury has reportedly been looking into whether a subsidiary of financial-information giant Reuters was involved in an attempt to steal data from rival Bloomberg (Reuters says...
...Arbor, Mich., last Tuesday). "I can probably sing pretty good. I think I'll do a good job." He is speaking in the living room of a house he owns in the Chicago exurb of St. Charles. Though he still spends most of his time in Southern California, he bought the St. Charles home so he could live and work next door to Joe Thomas, a former professional wrestler turned musician who co-produced Wilson's 1998 album, Imagination, and is serving as the music director of Wilson's tour. As such, Thomas is but the latest in a long...