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School Board Election Q & A with the Candidates
A diverse field of four candidates — including a 20-year-old Princeton University student and a La Caņada Unified matriarch — has made the 2011 school board election the most exciting in recent memory.
The campaign has been fueled by hot-...Tags: Charity, Ice Hockey, Adult Education, Budgets and Budgeting, Standards
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Personal and private lives
A recent poll by the Public Religion Research Institute has revealed that religious Americans think a financial scandal is worse than a sexual one. The poll was conducted in the wake of several high-profile cases of politicians making headlines for their...Tags: Sex, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Anthony D. Weiner, Grover Cleveland, Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Guest Column: Administrators must collect, use data
I regularly hear about teachers at our schools around town. The topics discussed often are the few poor teachers, graded tests held at school, tests unrelated to classroom discussions or textbooks, too much or too little homework, etc. Some of these...Tags: Elections, Charity, Politics, Social Issues, Surveys
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Around Town: Someday there will be a cure
Hope is on the way. In 2008, a group of women, including Rusty Robertson, Katie Couric, Sherry Lansing, Lisa Paulsen, Laura Ziskin, Noreen Fraser, Sue Schwartz and Ellen Ziffren, launched a new project called Stand Up To Cancer. These women were leaders...Tags: Spider-Man (fictional character), Medical Research, Katie Couric, Sherry Lansing, Health
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Guest Column: School district fails to learn from history
As the Valley Sun reported last week, the LCUSD Governing Board recently voted 4-1, with Joel Peterson dissenting, to cut four complete days of school next year, replacing them with four pupil-free days for teacher professional development. The district...Tags: Sports, Schools, University of California, Los Angeles, Budgets and Budgeting, Contracts
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Mother Nature is her lab partner
The vehicle for all of life’s variety and complexity has found a new driver in La Caņada’s Frances Arnold. In her laboratories at Caltech, Arnold is harnessing the evolutionary process to create new proteins and enzymes that have the...
Tags: Animals, Genetic Engineering, Conservation, Science, Renewable Energy
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Around Town: Here's a chance to help cure cancer
Two local men, Lawrence Park and Geoff Chandler, have started an online competition. Lawrence and Geoff graduated from Flintridge Prep with the Class of 1998. They were friends of my late son, Andrew Torres, who died of cancer. They have set up a...Tags: Golf, Cancer, Sports, Clubs and Associations, Health
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Around Town: On gratitude and the search for a cure
One in two men and one in three women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetimes. It is the job of our generation to win the war on cancer. Last week, our family and friends held the sixth golf tournament, banquet and auction in memory of our son,...Tags: Golf, Medical Research, Science, Cancer, Sports
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Around Town: We need a cure for cancer. Now.
I met Hunter Shelden in the early 1980s. I was defending a criminal case. The case had causation issues and Dr. Shelden, a world-known neurosurgeon, agreed to review the case as an expert.
I knew that Dr. Shelden began his career as a Navy doctor....Tags: Car Safety Tips and Advice, Science, Armed Forces, Sports, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Around Town: Dreaming of a world without cancer
In 2004, our son, 2nd. Lt. Andrew Torres, USMC, died of cancer. He was 23 years old. Andrew was a graduate of the United States Naval Academy (Class of 2002), a Marine and a fine person. In the hours before his death, he asked us, his family and friends,...Tags: United States Naval Academy, Physical Conditions, Liver Cancer, Sports, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Amazon trek opens teen's eyes
While most of his friends were spending their summers on the beach, Amir Mojarradi, a senior at La Caņada High, did something just a bit more exotic: He trekked the Amazonian jungle. Last year, Mojarradi won a Los Angeles County science fair for his...Tags: Conservation, Science, Wildlife, Health, Nature
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Guests spend night seeing stars
It's pitch dark and Stephen Edberg can barely make out who is who among the dozen guests he has assembled at his personal observatory in Lockwood Valley, just north of Frazier Park. But this lesson requires only the light of the stars, which radiate...Tags: San Diego (San Diego, California), Education, Science, University of California, Los Angeles, Science and Technology
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