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...following summer—when they were both participating in the Harvard College Program for Research in Science and Engineering—they were discussing marriage. Lopez asked DeCoste-Lopez to marry him when she came to visit him during intersession the next year. The two traveled to San Francisco where Lopez planned to propose at Ocean Beach near Golden Gate Park. When they arrived, DeCoste-Lopez began writing messages in the sand. “She kind of played right into it,” Lopez said. “So I said ‘Okay...
...After the women’s squad’s one-year hiatus from the national championship, the Crimson’s co-ed and women’s teams qualified for all three of their national affairs, with the contests taking place in the windy waters of San Francisco, Calif. “It is our goal to qualify for all three of the national championships every year,” senior skipper Jon Garrity said. The women’s squad finished its season with a 10th-place effort at the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association Women?...
...date, at least 17 states, along with city health departments in New York City, Baltimore, Boston and San Francisco, now have in place programs similar to that of Chicago Recovery Alliance. But not all officials agree that they are a viable part of any solution to the country's drug problem. Critics argue that arming drug addicts with an overdose remedy only encourages more drug use; they also say naloxone should be administered only by medical professionals to protect against side effects and potentially dangerous misuse. The deputy director of former President Bush's Office of National Drug Control Policy...
...Arnold Kriegstein, director of the Institute for Regeneration Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, is excited by the advance but notes that it is still relatively inefficient. "The ability to make cell lines from patients with any risk of genetic alteration is a significant step, but the efficiency of 0.001% of cells is low, and even that took two months to achieve," he says, referring to the fact that only a tiny percentage of skin cells in the study transformed into iPS cells over two months. "How readily or quickly this technology is applied, and whether the efficiency...
Wine'd Down. At Timber Cove Inn, located on an outcropping above the crashing waves of the Pacific about two hours north of San Francisco, you can luxuriate in your own private hot tub, then lounge by your in-room fireplace. The inn's Savor Sonoma Package, which includes a room and a six-course tasting menu, costs $229 for two guests. What's more, the local wineries will come to you with their wares: the guided tasting each weekend costs $15 to $20 for four glasses. If you buy one of the wines, you can drink...