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  • UC Berkeley Targeted In Federal Complaint Over Its Handling Of Rape Allegations

    NEW YORK (CBS/AP) — Women’s-rights attorney Gloria Allred says federal complaints have been filed against four U.S. colleges over how the colleges handle rape allegations. Allred joined students from the colleges at a New York City news conference to announce the filing of complaints against Swarthmore College, Dartmouth College, the University of Southern California and the ...

  • Jefferson Award Winner Gives Struggling Parents A Needed Break

    Bay Area Crisis Nursery could be just the place to lend a hand. ';The nursery is a place that gives them new hope,'; Sister Ann Weltz explained. Sister Ann founded the nursery so parents could temporarily leave their children in a residential care center while they climb out of life’s ...

  • 10 Percent Revenue Slide Adds To Woes For Slumping HP

    PALO ALTO (CBS/AP) – Hewlett-Packard’s slump is deepening as the world’s largest personal computer maker scrambles to meet the growing demand for more versatile and less expensive mobile devices. The latest evidence of Hewlett-Packard Co.’s continuing downfall came in a quarterly earnings report released Wednesday. The results included the seventh consecutive decline in ...

  • San Francisco Events Mark Harvey Milk Day

    SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -The late San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk was being remembered in a series of events Wednesday, on what would have been his 83rd birthday. Milk, who was the city's first openly gay supervisor, was gunned down along with Mayor George Moscone by fellow Supervisor Dan White at City Hall on Nov. 27, 1978. Milk was 48 when he died. In the decades since then, Milk ...

  • Into gaming Silicon Valley now has a masters degree for that

    Fan of computer games? The University of California, Santa Cruz, is set to offer a master's degree in games and playable media at its Silicon Valley Extension campus in Santa Clara. Attention parents who insist video games are a waste of time: your kid could be getting a masters degree for knowing the ins and outs of that technology. The University of California, Santa Cruz, this week ...


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Movie Review

Twister

Unfortunately for "Twister," special effects alone do not a good movie make. Having said that, let me quickly praise Industrial Light and Magic for the outstanding job it did on the visual effects in this film. The computer-generated tornadoes rushing across the Oklahoma plains were so realistic as to be unnerving. You could literally feel the wind blowing across your face as the roar of the twist ... ...

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  • Economic Boon to Bay From Super Bowl Still Unknown

    The 50th Super Bowl will be played in the Bay Area -- so what's that mean for the area's bottom line? Wait and see, organizers are saying -- ...

  • SF Supe Wants to Transit Surcharge for Giants Games

    Supervisor Scott Wiener has asked city officials to study adding $1 to $3 -- for a "transit surcharge" -- to "all tickets sold for large sporting and entertainment events in San ...

  • Deputy Eating Hamburger Leads to $5M Setttlment

    The bill to taxpayers for a crash caused by sheriff's deputy in Santa Clara County distracted by, among other things, a McDonald's hamburger is steep ...

  • Summer festivals 2013 Your guide to Bay Area fairs and outdoor fun

    If it's summer, it must be time for fairs and festivals. As usual, there are myriad events to choose from, ranging from the really big shows (San Jose Jazz Festival, Outside Lands in San Francisco, Art and Soul in Oakland) to the major art and wine festivals to the street fairs that let you sample the food and ambience of neighborhoods around the Bay.Please be sure to clip and save this ...

  • Bay Areas best restaurant kids meals

    At a time when even school cafeterias serve adobo and sushi, it's surprising that so many restaurants still resort to chicken fingers and macaroni and cheese for their youngest clientele.Kids crave selection. Most of them like trying new foods. Meanwhile, their parents, who keep an eye on selection, nutrition and culinary diversity, look to the kids menu for appropriate portions at the ...

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