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...complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court provides graphic details. Audon Felix Garcia, 41, became sick July 2008 after loading grape boxes into a truck in 112-degree heat from morning to early afternoon in Kern County. He had 15 years of experience in the fields and, according to the complaint, his "core body temperature was 108 degrees Fahrenheit at the time of his death." Maria de Jesus Bautista had worked in the fields all her life and had never been sick from the heat, but in July 2008 while picking grapes in Riverside County in 110 degrees she complained...
Oklahoma Legislature • resolution is drafted by nutty member of - Sally Kern, a self-described "Kernservative" - blaming the economic crisis on "abortion, pornography, same sex marriage" and lots of other such immoralities that President Obama just adores...
...COMICS SERIOUSLY The quality of the graphic novel continues to improve today, with writers such as Art Spiegelman producing Pulitzer prize-winning works. “I think that graphics as a medium has grown up with people like Marjane Satrapi and Speigelman,” says Adam L. Kern, an associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages who teaches a class on Japanese literature. “And I think that’s been something that’s revolutionized comics. It’s no longer superheroes in underwear. Now comics have become more respectable...
...polls told a different story. While San Francisco’s latte-sipping hipsters certainly voted for the ban, so did conservative family farmers across the state anxious to stop the encroachment of polluting factory farms. In Kern and Shasta counties, both places with rural populations where John McCain won the vote by a large margin, Proposition Two also enjoyed majority support...
...next president of the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. The University of Texas System board of regents on Tuesday named Dr. Daniel K. Podolsky as the sole finalist for the job. The regents are expected to finalize his appointment next month. Podolsky would replace Dr. Kern Wildenthal, who has announced he will step down in September after 22 years on the job. Podolsky is a former president of the American Gastroenterological Association. For the last three years, he has been chief academic officer for Partners HealthCare and he's on the board of directors and on the audit committee...