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...Read about Renzo Piano's design for the California Academy of Sciences...
...Even though I am California's "top cop," 2 of my tires were stolen. No matter. I got 2 new ones and I'm rolling again!' JERRY BROWN, California's attorney general, in a Facebook posting after his state-owned Toyota Camry was ransacked...
...USAGE: "California Schools Superintendent Jack O'Connell said that last week teachers reminded students that if they have to sneeze, to put their mouths into the crook of one of their elbows. 'The students started calling that the Dracula Sneeze, and we picked up on that,' O'Connell said." --Reuters, April...
...Texas Tantrum," Nancy Gibbs failed to mention that for 10 years Texas was a country--which successfully fought for independence from Mexico in 1836--before choosing to join the U.S. Do not compare Texas to Vermont, Hawaii and California. Mike Gallagher, HOUSTON...
...summer of 1995, I was interviewing a woman who was a member of Saddleback Church in California. It was dark and we were sitting outside in a circle of light under a lamppost while she talked to me about her faith. The moment itself is hard to describe. It's as if someone stood on the edge of the circle and was breathing on us. A warm, moist air surrounded us. She was mid-sentence and stopped talking. It was a moment like I hadn't felt before - or since. There was the presence of something else that was spiritual...