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...Francisco Chronicle. Parent company Hearst has already set a deadline for shuttering the paper if it cannot make tremendous cost cuts. The Chronicle lost as much as $70 million last year. Even if the company could lower its costs, the Northern California economy is in bad shape. The online version of the paper could be the only version by the middle...
...crossover of funds. Melton's embryonic-stem-cell research was relegated to a 250-sq.-ft. (23 sq m) basement room on Harvard's campus, and every piece of equipment was stickered to remind users whether it had been bought with federal or nonfederal funds. At the University of California, San Francisco, stem-cell researcher Susan Fisher can finally unify her divided lab space. "You walk down the hall of my lab, and on one side is the federally funded work, and on the other side are duplicate facilities for nonfederal work," she says...
...under which you would think it's O.K. to raise animals for food? I do not believe animals are here for us to exploit, and I do not believe that under any circumstances we should raise animals for food. That said, I am very happy Proposition 2 passed in California and that it will phase out extreme confinement of animals, including battery cages for hens...
Triple Play. American Airlines is offering triple AAdvantage miles for nonstop flights between Boston and three California cities - L.A., San Francisco or San Diego (service to the last starts April 7). Use promotional code BOS3X when booking through...
...making electric vehicles and could spend it on cars that emit too much CO2. GM now notes that one-third of the Cadillac Escalades it sell are hybrids, so it would have plenty of currency. Of course, at this point Detroit is hoping for anything that doesn't have California's fingerprints all over...