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California broadband projects pick up $205 million in federal funding
Rural California will become a little more wired. California will receive over $205 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds for seven projects aimed toward bringing fast broadband...
View ArticleDisneyland worker, barred from wearing hijab scarf as restaurant hostess,...
A Disneyland Resort restaurant hostess filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Wednesday because she said she is not being allowed to wear her hijab in her current...
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Miss Universe Pageant judges named -- bikinis included
Oh, Miss Universe Pageant, you had us at "bikinis." That said, the Miss Universe Pageant has also named its judges for 2010: husband and wife William Baldwin and Chynna Phillips, Olympic medalist Evan...
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Tracking solar storms in real-time
You may not know it, but the weather in outer space can be pretty nasty. Solar storms can knock out cellphone satellite constellations, black out power grids and even endanger high-altitude aircraft....
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Happy Birthday, 19th Amendment (And thanks to Harry T. Burn's mom)
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by...
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Eli Broad says Yaroslavsky website is wrong; no decision yet on museum's...
The continuing saga of the very public path Eli Broad's museum is taking from idea to reality added a new chapter on Wednesday. The latest development has to do with the unexpected outcome of one of...
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Los Angeles City Council approves new watering rules
The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday approved a new lawn-watering ordinance, superseding the standing two-day-a-week sprinkler rule with a revision that allows lawn-watering on three...
View ArticleSwimming: Pan Pacifics, Day 1 update
Swimming supremacy, American style, did not exactly benefit Aaron Peirsol and Mary DeScenza Mohler on Wednesday in the morning heats at the Pan Pacific Championships in Irvine. Peirsol and Mohler...
View ArticleNevada reportedly set to join Fresno State in Mountain West Conference
This has all come together in a matter of hours, but Reno Journal Gazette is reporting Nevada is also leaving the Western Athletic Conference for the Mountain West. The Fresno Bee reported earlier that...
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Trust Miss USA Rima Fakih -- we Americans always wear stripper heels with our...
For anyone who's visiting this blog from outside the United States -- and we know you're there, 'cause you comment like crazy on posts about Michael Jackson and Angelina Jolie -- let the Ministry of...
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