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  • 5 reasons Los Angeles Kings will take 3-2 lead over San Jose Sharks

    Stanley Cup champions. By contrast, the Sharks are expected to lose because they are perceived as playoff underachievers. Such conclusions actually run contrary to reality. First of all, the Sharks have the edge head-to-head since before the season lost to the lockout. It is quite possible they only lost the 2013 NHL season series because they tanked the last game to get the match-up with the ...

  • China Silicon Valley nonprofit boosts ties Video

    Why Silicon Valley is important to China and what San Jose and the region is doing about it, according to Victor Wang of Hanhai Investments and zPark Venture, and Kim Walesh, San Jose's Economic Development. Interviewed by Senior Technology Reporter Cromwell Schubarth after they spoke at the Silicon Valley Business Journal's International Business Forum on May 23. Victor Wang of Hanhai ...

  • Google Takes You to the Galapagos Islands

    Karin Tuxen-Bettman collects photos of a Galapagos giant tortoise crawling along the path in Galapaguera, a tortoise breeding center managed by the Galapagos National Park ...

  • Chez Panisses grand reopening

    Robin MacSwain, left, and June Johnson, background, work on a new frame installed on the fire damaged Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley on Tuesday April 30, 2013. The restaurant has been closed since the March 8 fire. (Doug Oakley/Bay Area News Group) (Doug Oakley) its reservation phone line May 27 at 9 a.m., and online reservations can be made ...

  • Brown Presses Climate Change Crusade At NASA Ames In Mountain View

    MOUNTAIN VIEW (CBS SF) – Gov. Jerry Brown Thusday urged scientists to dedicate themselves to convincing a distracted public and news media about the dangers of climate change and other potential disruptions to human life. Brown, speaking to about 100 people at the Water, Energy and Smart Technology Summit at the NASA Ames Research Park at Moffett Field, said, "We are really in a war ...


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The Great Dictator [Blu-Ray]

The Great Dictator [Blu-Ray]

While it is not the greatest of his feature films, Charlie Chaplins tragicomic The Great Dictator is certainly his bravest, if not one of the bravest films ever made. A blatant satire of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich, it was a lone cinematic cry for humanity to stand t ... ...

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  • SFSU Professor Draws Scrutiny Over Political Ad Campaign Class Assignment

    SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — A San Francisco State University professor is drawing scrutiny for a class assignment that asked students to create a political campaign ad. The San Francisco Chronicle reports Joe Tuman gave the students the option to create the ad for a real person, including him, and said he would use it if it were good. Tuman, who contributes political analysis for KPIX 5 and ...

  • Phil Matier Repair Work Begins On Bay Bridge Bolts

    earlier this month outlined a plan for the broken bolts - installing steel saddles, which would be placed over the base of the seismic shock absorber that was initially intended to attach to the bridge by the rods. About 430 steel cables covered in concrete will tie down the ...

  • Stanford’s Appel Prepares For 2nd Draft As Elite Prospect

    STANFORD (CBS/AP) – As Mark Appel sat in the Stanford dugout and glanced out at sun-kissed Sunken Diamond this week, the star pitcher reminded himself just how much it meant to return for his final college season. An unpopular choice for some, the right one for a projected high first-round draft pick once again--a year after he turned down the Pittsburgh Pirates as the eighth overall ...

  • CA debuts health care exchange plans $54-$383 Valley premiums

    A snapshot of plans that will be offered on California's state health care exchange, Covered California, to qualified individuals in Santa Clara County. Ahead of the official launch of California's state health care exchange on Jan. 1, 2014, the agency charged with implementing new system on Thursday debuted benefit plans that will be available to qualified individuals. Though some ...

  • Six ways to bridge the Silicon Valley-China gap

    What's your company's strategy for doing business with China? Not news: Chinese investment is pouring into Silicon Valley, and local companies are going after a piece of that action. News: This morning I spoke with six executives at that business crossroads who delivered six tips on bridging cultural and economic divides between Silicon Valley and China. Those were just some of the tasty ...

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