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THEN AND NOW: City shut its doors to blacks in past
Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a two-part series on housing discrimination in Palo Alto.
ON COLLEGE: University leaders talk drinking age
Q: I have heard that some college presidents are calling for a debate about whether the drinking age in the U.S. should be lowered to 18.
CRITTER CORNER: Helpline offers free advice
Is your beloved Fido or Fluffy driving you crazy with annoying, puzzling or destructive behavior? Have you tried seeking the advice of family, friends and your neighborhood "Animal-Whisper" wannabee to no ...
MAGID ON TECH: Google's Chrome has real shine
Move over Microsoft and Mozilla. Google has its own web browser. In a couple of hours of testing I found it fast but not always faster than the competition and confirmed that it's less likely to crash than ...
HEALTH MATTERS: Empathy slow to replace stigma of mental illness
The World Health Organization calls them among the most neglected people in the world: people with mental health disorders.
THEN AND NOW: Segregation in Palo Alto
Editor's Note: This is part one of a two-part series on the history of housing discrimination in Palo Alto.
ON COLLEGE: Startup creates 'Schools' Facebook tool
Q: Are any colleges or universities using Facebook? A: A startup company called Inigral, which was started in the basement of one of its co-founders' parents' Palo Alto home, has started a Facebook application ...
CRITTER CORNER: Rabbits feel insecure with children
I received an email message from an 11-year-old interested in adopting one of the available rabbits at the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA .
BUSINESS MATTERS: Revitalize career with new skills
Q: My employment background is retail sales and management, but I was fired from my last job at a bank after one year.
Animal-to-man leptospirosis on upswing
On the face of it, it sounded like the adventure of a lifetime: compete in the Eco-Challenge-Sabah 2000 multi-sport endurance race in the Segama River in Borneo, Malaysia.
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Plenty of buzz at this car show
“What a nice guy. "Morons, stupid, brainless, BS, weak mental, crap." Yeah, yo...” — reincarnated
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Man shot five times in E. Palo Alto
“He has never been in no gang....people need to stop saying that about every victim to a...” — wow