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...teammate of mine from our high school baseball team offered to take me along to Game One of the 1988 World Series: Dodger Stadium, the Oakland A's versus the Los Angeles Dodgers...
...rest of the game, it looked like the A's would dominate. Dave Stewart pitched well for Oakland, and in the second inning, Canseco lined a grand slam home run that left a dent in NBC's centerfield camera...
Using graphs, charts and examples of children's artwork, Ann Brown, who is also a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, set out to show that the Oakland, Calif.-based "Foster a Community of Learning Project" effectively develops students' reading and research skills...
...Haydenville, Massachusetts, Barbara Allen and Robin Juris are providing their biological children Hannah, 7, and Cody, 3, with the rural environment lacking in their former home in Oakland, California. They inseminated each other using the sperm of casual friends and took extensive, though not uncommon, legal precautions to avoid facing a custody dispute. "In our hearts we trusted these men," says Allen, "but we also wrote up a contract." The children have met their biological fathers; that word, however, is never used. Says Allen: "They are donors. They don't have a role that would approximate the real role...
...urban energy of the Pacific Coast, right? Wrong. On the other side is Peter Northrop, 38, a Connecticut-born Chevron oil computer programmer in Denver. In July 1992, Northrop was given 48 hours to agree to a transfer to San Ramon, California, about 30 miles east of Oakland. He and his wife Susan, 37, agonized and then opted to stay put in Denver with their two small children. It took Northrop four months to land a new job with Diners Club, at 15% less pay. "The determining factor in staying was looking at the economy of California and the economy...