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The UC Board of Regents approved on July 16 an emergency budget plan that would force 80% of the system's 180,000 employees to take unpaid furloughs of 11 to 26 days over the next year. UC president Mark Yudof said the furlough plan was preferable to layoffs in...
While Alaskans may find the algal blob unusual if not frightening, scientists say they are nothing new in Arctic Ocean waters, though the blob itself might be a little weird. Brenda Konar, a marine biology professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, says algal outbreaks can and do occur even...
There's an easy way to represent this visually: the fan chart. What starts as a line quickly becomes a blurry fan-shaped region, underscoring that as time marches forward, the variable being forecast falls into an ever broader range of possibilities. "The more you think in terms of distribution...
To Andy Chou, a local food researcher and TV commentator, Tseng's efforts represent "a tour of Taiwan for the tongue." Still, Tseng's foreign escapades were not all in vain. He says his next goal is to manufacture the "world's best beef jerky." That would blend right in...
Iran's ethnic tensions were an issue during the presidential election campaign, not least because two of the key challengers to Ahmadinejad, Mehdi Karroubi (a Lor) and Mir-Hossein Mousavi (an Azeri) are from minority communities. The two campaigned in minority areas to an unprecedented degree, and their strong support...