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...into a park. The barricaded parking space—adorned with potted plants, flowers, and a bed of grass—offered passersby a chance to sit in the sun as part of the National Park[ing] Day event. Started in 2005 as a collaboration between Rebar, a San Francisco art collective, and The Trust for Public Land (TPL), a national conservation nonprofit, the event is a one-day global event to advocate for the conversion of public spaces into parks and spaces to rest and relax. The event was described by organizers as “a global exploration...
...Dalbar shows that as mutual-fund investors increase the length of time they hold their funds, they do better relative to stock and bond indexes. "Our emotions are backward-looking, but the market is always about what's going to happen," says David Yeske, a financial planner in San Francisco. So no running for the exits. That said, it may be a good time to see if you're properly diversified--in a blend of stocks, bonds, foreign and domestic securities, big and small companies. One thing that's clear: If there's another hit, there will be little telling...
...study introduces a curious wrinkle in the evidence. Led by Dr. Guilherme Campos, director of the Bariatric Surgery Program at the University of California, San Francisco, the study found that gastric-bypass patients with diabetes did not lose as much weight as other patients after the surgery. Of the 310 patients in the study, 92% of those without diabetes were able to lose more than 40% of their excess weight - statistically, that's considered a successful procedure - while only 79% of diabetes patients were able to drop that much weight after one year. In both cases, doctors used the same...
Pelosi's statement provoked swift response. Washington Archbishop Donald Wuerl issued a statement calling her comments "incorrect," while her own archbishop in San Francisco characterized them as "in serious conflicts with the teachings of the Catholic Church." Pelosi and her archbishop are in the process of setting up a meeting to discuss their differences. But one prominent liberal Catholic privately called the episode "a disaster...
...oldest published quotes using the entire phrase appeared in The Washington Post in November 1985. Asked by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to put his station's $20,000 fundraiser earnings toward the renovation of Candlestick Park, KNBR personality Ron Lyons scoffed, "That would be like putting lipstick...