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A Hybrid Escape to Alcatraz

The engine is hybrid. Seventy-five percent of the trash is recycled. Even vodka bottle scraps were reused to make the countertops. How the Alcatraz Ferry has gone green.
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Kelli Harding
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Thursday, Oct 15 2009 5:30 PM
For Araceli, 17, others, Mission center provides anchor to family, Latino heritage and life
When Araceli Leon, 17, was a young girl, she wasn’t sure just where in her life her Latino heritage fit in, and feeling lost she searched for where she belonged.
Fortunately for Leon, her father Jose Leon, the youth program director at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, helped guide her. Melissa Dudum-Maya and Laura Sullivan report from the Mission District.
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Tuesday, Dec 23 2008 4:29 PM
Shining Traditions
Lantern makers take part in a Filipino Christmas tradition.
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Pauline Joy Talens
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Friday, Dec 12 2008 8:50 AM
Jingle Hells
Will economic woes keep Santa Claus in the North Pole?
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Jackie Thunem
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Friday, Dec 12 2008 8:41 AM
Thousands attend nationwide protest against Prop. 8

Thousands of demonstrators met together in front of City Hall Saturday morning to participate in the nationwide protest against the Nov. 4 passing of Proposition...
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Stephanie Francis
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Monday, Nov 17 2008 12:23 PM
Forensics team finds truth, not murderers
A forensics team may conjure images of police analyzing blood stains at murder scenes, but SF State’s forensic team is interested in finding something much...
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Matt St. John
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Friday, Oct 10 2008 5:48 PM
Lead Us Not Into Intolerance

The chairs are arranged in a circle. Seventy-five members of the Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco (MCCSF) sit on one side with a sixteen-person choir and full band on the other. Inside the circle is Reverend Lea Brown, wearing...
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Chris Middleton
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Thursday, Apr 24 2008 8:00 AM
Coming home is an international affair

Homecoming is an American tradition. From high school to university it is a ceremony practiced across the nation. To the king and queen of this...
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Chris Wybenga
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Thursday, Feb 14 2008 10:38 AM
Poli sci profs pontificate on presidential primaries
Classes were held at McKenna Theatre all day, but on the evening of Super Tuesday, the theater transformed into a place where SF State students...
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Stephanie Rinker
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Tuesday, Feb 5 2008 11:06 PM
The Poor Man's Struggle

I am that poor man often stared at oddly/You spy me slovenly as poverty draws me camouflage…I am that poor man you don’t understand/or ignore this but sometimes you pour porridge that meets these orphaned lips/and others see me as...
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Christine Joy Ferrer
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Friday, Dec 14 2007 1:30 PM
Obama seeks women's vote in SF

Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) spoke to a wildly responsive crowd of hundreds at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Friday afternoon. The well-dressed crowd...
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Juliet Blalack
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Friday, Sep 7 2007 9:49 AM
NEIGHBORHOODS: The Villas Parkmerced

Ambiance Walking through The Villas Parkmerced is a small escape from busy city life. The well-kept lawns and quiet sidewalks leave little room for blaring sirens or heavy traffic noise. The neighborhood in SF State’s backyard seems less inhabited by...
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Stephanie Rinker
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Thursday, Sep 6 2007 2:44 PM
SF State welcomes freshmen

The incoming freshman class was welcomed into the college community at SF State’s first annual Welcome Days on August 23 and 24. Festivities included inspirational...
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Louis Bohan
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Wednesday, Aug 29 2007 10:09 PM
SF State Promotes AIDS Awareness

Condom displays and live entertainment attracted more students in the quad than the usual food and info tables, hoping to raise AIDS awareness.
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Story by
Deana Saenz
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Wednesday, Apr 18 2007 8:32 AM
Discrimination Within
Walking down Castro Street on any given day, one would think that all is well within the gay population; that there is a sense of unity. However, to the trained eye it becomes apparent that this seemingly unified group is actually torn at the seams.
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Jessica Feller
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Monday, Mar 12 2007 7:58 AM
New Sex Professor Brings Enthusiasm to Class

New and young professor still fairly new to SF brings new and fresh enthusiasm to classroom and her outside work. Amie Ashcraft, originally from West Virginia, is a new professor on campus this semester is teaching the Sexuality, Ethnicity, and Health class in the human sexuality department. She also does research downtown at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, or CAPS.
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Story by
Deana Saenz
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Monday, Feb 5 2007 11:16 AM
Spicing Up the Holidays
This holiday season, some people are putting an adult sex toys on their shopping lists. Last year Americans spent $1.5 billion on adult novelties, according to the Free Speech Coalition, and local stores say this holiday season is busier than...
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Katie Peoples
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Saturday, Dec 9 2006 12:02 PM
Music department falls into jazz
Crowded around six different microphones and accompanied by a student bassist and drummer,15 members of the SF State Jazz chorus are rehearsing for an upcoming concert at the annual Fall Into Jazz festival, sponsored by SF State’s Music and Dance department
“A joyful, clean, warm sound is what were looking for here,” said Jazz chorus conductor Kathleen Hollingsworth, a graduate student at SF State who will be receiving her master’s degree in oral conduction.
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Story by
Christina Ferrucci
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Thursday, Nov 2 2006 7:14 PM
World Gathers at Study Abroad Fair
The International Education Exchange Council, an on-campus student organization aimed at bringing American and exchange students together, held a study abroad fair Wednesday. The fair gave exchange students and study abroad alumni a chance to share their experience with people interested in studying abroad.
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Khari Johnson
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Thursday, Oct 19 2006 3:08 PM
SFO remembers the lives of 9/11 victims
Community played a huge factor in Monday’s memorial service held at San Francisco International Airport. The service was for the flight crew members who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks of Sept.11, 2001.
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Jessica Feller
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Tuesday, Sep 12 2006 2:23 AM
Voices from the Middle East Heard Live at SF State
In response to the ongoing conflicts in the Middles East, three SF State student groups sponsored an event Wednesday night at Jack Adams Hall, in which students could interact by telephone with two activists currently on the front lines.
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Jason Shuffler
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Thursday, Sep 7 2006 11:04 AM
Riding the Streets: San Francisco bike messengers take the road
Riding around the city delivering messages is an old profession, present in San Francisco since 1894. With a number of companies and experiences, those who ride claim that once your wheels hit the street you never look back. A hard way to make a buck, those who sacrifice good pay for the autonomy of biking all day admit that it is a challenging job, but worth it in the end.
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Stephanie Farebrother
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Wednesday, May 17 2006 1:05 PM
She Works Hard for her Money
Standing in their midst is Sadaisha Shimmers, a vision of gaudy fabulousness. The lights adorning her neck, fingers and head are bouncing off dozens of blue and white rhinestones attached to her face. Clad in fishnets and a black and white one-piece bathing suit, Shimmers disrupts the intimate conversation before she even reaches the table.
“Hi, I’m Sadaisha, Peachy’s Puffs’ first drag queen. I’ve got something to suck, something to blow, something to chew and not just on me but on my lovely tray...
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Amelia Gravagno
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Wednesday, May 17 2006 12:44 PM
Pen in Hand
The enormous wave of technological inventions is threatening to swallow all communication in the 21st century. According to a study done by the Radicati Group, a Palo Alto research firm in the telecommunications industry, there are over 1.2 billion active e-mail accounts worldwide, which would cause speculation over the letter becoming a dying art.
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Stephanie Farebrother
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Tuesday, Apr 18 2006 1:14 AM
Domestic Violence Conference
To raise awareness on the issue of domestic violence, over 200 students and social workers from across the Bay Area gathered together at the Jack Adams Hall for an eight-hour conference.
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Kathryn Speraw
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Monday, Apr 10 2006 12:29 PM
Taking Tae Kwon Do to the Next Level
This is an article about the Taekwondo professor on campus who has established a new club for all sf state students who are interested in competing nationally.
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Jodit Ghougassian
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Thursday, Mar 16 2006 5:51 PM
Open Enrollment Planned for Gerontology Program
SF State’s gerontology department reopened their doors for graduate enrollment, after a two-year suspension saved their graduate program from discontinuance due to budget deficits in Fall 2004.
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Jaime R. Roca
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Thursday, Mar 9 2006 9:13 PM
Hell Up in Hunters Point

In the wake of the Hurricane Katrina Disaster, People throughout the Bay Area Rected immediately, offering support in any way they could.One of these people was San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom who offered, among other things, temporary housing in various housing projects throughout the city.
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Keka Robinson
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Monday, Dec 5 2005 4:11 PM
Seminar Inspires Natural Hair Care

In an effort to teach San Francisco hair enthusiasts the essentials of natural hair care, self-proclaimed master braider Jewel Parker presented a natural hair-care seminar entitled "Back to Plaits" on Friday October 28, 2005.
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Keka Robinson
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Monday, Dec 5 2005 1:46 PM
SF State Students Perform Benefit Concert

The same group of SF State students that had an entire audience jumping up and dancing out of their seats and in the hallways that night will be playing a benefit concert at SF State’s Jack Adams Hall. The first annual clinica Martin-Baro benefit will occur at Jack Adams Hall in SF State located at 1600 Holloway Ave. Dec. 5 at 6pm.
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Gabriel Cordero
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Wednesday, Nov 30 2005 12:11 PM
H&M makes its long awaited West Coast debut
The wait is over. H&M is finally here. After creating a huge buzz over its arrival in San Francisco, Swedish fashion retailer H&M opened the doors to its two new stores in Union Square on Saturday to a seemingly endless line of shoppers.
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Stephanie Barrio
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Sunday, Nov 20 2005 11:39 AM
G-Rated Violence Increasing
In the 1942 animated classic, "Bambi," a hunter shot the mother deer to death. Over half a century later, alien warfare and the vaporization of defenseless towns characterize the contemporary animated film, "Chicken Little."
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Rania Tikoo
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Thursday, Nov 10 2005 2:55 PM
Veg Out

Living the vegetarian life is not always easy, but in a city like San Francisco, it can be. Check out some
vegetarian and vegan-friendly eateries on and off campus.
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StephanieBarrio
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Tuesday, Nov 8 2005 9:47 PM
All Aboard the "Crazy Train"

SF State cinema major Sean David Christensen is taking charge of getting his short film, Crazy Train, into the hands of viewers by making it into a DVD and sending it off to independent film festivals.
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Stephanie Farebrother
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Tuesday, Nov 8 2005 9:12 PM
Is San Francisco a Poor-Friendly City?

The wind blows through untrimmed eucalyptus trees that hang over the cream and blue public housing units. A young black man in a white, black and red T-shirt that reads “Stop Snitchin! Snitches Get Stitches” strolls back and forth in front. Cans, plastic bags and bits of paper rustle around the barren dirt and weed-filled lawn that shines like diamonds from scattered shards of glass.
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Tiffany Leslie
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Sunday, Oct 23 2005 8:11 PM
100% Proof
The top shelf of a grocery stores’ liquor aisle is often lined with expensive bottles of cognac, vodka, champagne and fine wine. If the all-female band Top Shelf were an actual type of alcohol, they would be up there next to the $300 bottles of Cristal and the prestigious Dom Perignon.
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Abigail Barsana
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Thursday, Oct 20 2005 9:47 PM
Film Explores Untold Story of Graffiti Art
A film set in San Francisco, “Qaulity of Life,” gave the insightful perspective of two young men facing difficulties, who were consumed with doing graffiti art in the Mission District, while being forced to hide and run from the police.
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Stephanie Farebrother
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Thursday, Oct 13 2005 8:54 PM
More Americans Coming Out as Trasngenders

In the late 1970s, Virginia Prince (a male-bodied person who wanted to live as a woman, without the use of hormones or surgery) created the term transgender to refer to those individuals who wanted to spend at least part of their time in the gender role opposite to that which they were assigned at birth.
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RaniaTikoo
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Wednesday, Oct 12 2005 7:13 PM
Litquake 2005 to Bring Thousands into the City
With the help of more than 250 Bay Area authors, Litquake 2005 will shake up San Francisco’s bars and bookstores for nine days with a slew of literary events.
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StephanieBarrio
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Thursday, Sep 29 2005 9:12 PM
The World of Anime is Crashing Into American Popculture
With its growing influence upon American popular culture, anime is bringing three elements to television and film that a majority of cartoon animation productions currently lack- vibrant displays of color, imaginative multi-faceted characters and complicated plots- that really do appeal to all ages.
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Stephanie Farebrother
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Thursday, Sep 22 2005 10:12 PM
San Francisco World Film Festival at a Screen Near You
Only at the San Francisco World Film Festival can a person travel to bead-making factories in China, the war in Iraq and an LSD-tainted Passover Seder- all without leaving their seat.
The film festival, which will occur from Sept. 29 through Oct. 2, will screen more than 40 films from international and local filmmakers in San Francisco.
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Stephanie Barrio
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Thursday, Sep 22 2005 8:17 PM
SF State Film Fest 2005

SF State Master of Fine Arts graduate Chelsea Walton aims to educate others about the media and its influence through images in her four-minute animated film “Jack and Middy Retire.”
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Stephanie Farebrother
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Thursday, Sep 15 2005 8:51 PM
A Venture into Environmental Art

ECO: Art About the Environment is an exhibit featuring over 30 works from 14 Northern California-based artists.
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Stephanie Barrio
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Thursday, Sep 8 2005 9:15 PM
MadCat: Not Just Films for Females

Dedicated to inventive films that are chosen based on thematic creativity, the MadCat Women’s International Film Festival is being held in San Francisco at the club El Rio from September 13-27.
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Stephanie Farebrother
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Thursday, Sep 8 2005 8:35 PM
What's Happening this Fall

Fall in the Bay Area is truly the best time of year for weather, days are warm and sunny, and nights are mild and clear. What better way to enjoy the outdoors than to check out the wide array of outdoor festivals happening near you?
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Rania Tikoo
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Thursday, Sep 8 2005 1:59 PM
Roommates: Best Friends or Mortal Enemies?

Who is this strange person suddenly sharing your home? Eating your food? Using your towels?
A new roommate can become a best friend or a mortal enemy; some may end up being both.
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Stephanie Barrio
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Tuesday, Aug 23 2005 6:52 PM
Littered Chintown Not Unlike Rest Of City
Something is bothering 19-year-old Stephanie Leung. She's been a frequent visitor to Chinatown since she was a little girl, but lately she said she thinks Chinatown has gotten "really dirty." When she goes to Chinatown she sees garbage on the...
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Patrick Wang
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Friday, Jun 24 2005 2:47 PM
High Housing Prices in Bay Area Discouraging for Graduates
Buying a home in the Bay Area immediately after graduation may be a far-fetched dream, according to new studies. Without careful financial planning you may be renting for years.
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Gabriel Cordero
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Wednesday, May 4 2005 1:17 PM
SF State Raises AIDS Awareness
At noon, the drums began to reverberate in classrooms across campus as the lion and dragon dancers made their way through SF State. It didn't mark homecoming or a holiday, but a call to the Multicultural AIDS Awareness Day held on April 5.
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Giselle Velazquez
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Tuesday, Apr 5 2005 4:43 PM
SF State Raises AIDS Awareness

At noon, the drums began to reverberate in classrooms across campus as the lion and dragon dancers made their way through SF State. It didn't mark homecoming or a holiday, but a call to the Multicultural AIDS Awareness Day held on April 5.
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Giselle Velazquez
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Tuesday, Apr 5 2005 4:43 PM
Spring Break Vacations Off the Beaten Path
It is not too late to plan a vacation on 'the road less traveled' over spring break that is fun, different, and affordable.
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Elizabeth Boyarsky
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Thursday, Mar 17 2005 8:10 PM
Annual Pot Fair Plants Awareness

The third annual National Medicinal Marijuana week spread awareness and support for medicinal cannibus with concerts, educational seminars, seed plantings, benefits for marijuana advocates and a marijuana health fair.
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Lachlan Maclean
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Thursday, Feb 24 2005 9:01 PM
Bush Protestors Rain on Inauguraton Parade

Thousands of demonstrators crammed in front of the City Hall rotunda to hear a bellicose address by organizers who oppose not only Bush’s pre-emptive attack on Iraq, but a domestic policy that critics say gave tax cuts skewed toward the rich at the expense of diminished health care and a dearth of affordable housing for middle and low-income earners.
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William Roller
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Sunday, Jan 30 2005 11:34 AM
AIDS Race: Worthy cause draws few
Early Saturday morning, April 18, organizers with Global Garden Projects came together for the first annual "Run for Hope and Beyond 2004." The event took place at Justin Herman Plaza, located at Market and Embarcadero streets in San Francisco. The...
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Laura Cunningham
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Sunday, Apr 25 2004 3:31 PM
Gay Marriage: Line by Line

The rush to get married has been nonstop since San Francisco’s newly elected mayor, Gavin Newsom, gave city officials the OK to marry same sex couples on Thursday.
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Lilan Duong
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Tuesday, Feb 17 2004 3:43 PM
Sleeping Rough: Senior Homeless in SF
The rate of homeless seniors is on the rise in San Francisco. Although the poverty rate in the United States has gone down, in this city it has remained the same since 1989.
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Vicki Cormack
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Monday, Dec 15 2003 12:27 PM
Gonzalez Loses Mayor's Bid

In a race that was just as much about looks and lifestyles as the core issues facing San Francisco, Matt Gonzalez still managed to come out on top--despite his loss in the runoff for mayor.
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Chris Koenig
and Stephanie Lim
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Tuesday, Dec 9 2003 6:25 PM
Bay Area Leads Fight for Women's Health
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports that the top five leading causes of death for women in the United States are heart disease, cancer, stroke, chronic lower respiratory diseases and diabetes. Yet how close has the city come to...
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Online Convergence Team
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Monday, Dec 8 2003 10:51 PM
Letter From the Editor's Desk

Everyone has an opinion on the recall, and journalists are certainly no exception. Love it or hate it, the recall has, at the very least,...
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Story by
Stephanie Lim
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Thursday, Sep 25 2003 4:58 PM