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Damage estimates climbed over $4 billion throughout the 75-mile-long region, officials declared the ornate 78-year-old Oakland City Hall unusable, and 26 buildings were closed indefinitely at Stanford University near Palo Alto, 35 miles south of San Francisco...
...drug trade. In fact, a body of scientists and educators maintains that it is the primary means by which people learn. "If you look at any successful learning situation, chances are you will find elements of apprenticeship," says John Seely Brown of the Institute for Research on Learning in Palo Alto, Calif...
...youth in South Florida reportedly practiced Santeria, the Caribbean voodoo, led the crazed rituals that accompanied the bloodletting. In the killing field, police found dozens of long candles as well as garlic, peppers and scores of half-burned cigars -- the accoutrements of an African offshoot of Santeria known as Palo Mayombe...
...March 23 announcement of University of Utah scientists Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann that they had discovered "cold fusion" triggered a huge scramble among physicists and chemists from Palo Alto to Moscow to verify their results...
...Stanford activist points to the successes at Palo Alto as a harbinger for more change. Fuentes, a special assistant to San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, graduated from Stanford last year after helping lead the movement to diversify a Western Civilization core curriculum that protestors said studied only white...