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2 hrs ago | Patch.com

1963: The Queen Takes a Bow

A look back at Lemon Grove, 49 years ago this week. A Tale of Two Queens: A Uneasy lies the head that wears a rhinestone tiara.

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Related Topix: San Diego, CA, Lemon Grove, CA, Spring Valley, CA, Davis College

5 hrs ago | Hay & Forage Grower

A Savory Sudangrass

Sudangrass's popularity and market potential may increase with this spring's introduction of a new hybrid.

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Related Topix: El Centro, CA, Agriculture, Science

7 hrs ago | Medical News

UC Davis mathematicians help biologists to understand platelet formation

UC Davis mathematicians have helped biologists figure out why platelets, the cells that form blood clots , are the size and shape that they are.

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Related Topix: Mathematics, Science, Medicine, Health

Sun May 27, 2012

My Mother Lode

Drought-Tolerant Plants: An Experiment

Are you interested in plants that will look good year-round without supplemental water in the summer? Just think of all the money and time you could save.

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Related Topix: Tuolumne County, CA, Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought, Home Gardening, Home, Chino, CA

Bangor Daily News

Robert De Niro keeps crowd laughing at Bates commencement

Actor Robert De Niro delivers his commencement speech Sunday morning at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, Sunday, May 27, 2012.

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Related Topix: Bates College

Davis Enterprise

Name droppers: UCD profs get support for book projects

UC Davis professorsA Noah Guynn ,A Hsuan L. Hsu A andA Keith David Watenpaugh A received support from the American Council of Learned Societies in their book projects.

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Dialogic

Maggie Sauter: The Visual Life of Occupy Wall Street

The Visual Life of Occupy Wall Street by Maggie Sauter MIT Comparative Media Studies Many visual tropes have accompanied Occupy Wall Street's rise to public prominence.

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Related Topix: Occupy Wall Street

Daily Mail

How the Pharoahs gave us the cat: Egyptians were the first to breed...

The results of the study of DNA from the remains of ritually slaughtered animals found in tombs suggest that we have the people of Ancient Egypt to thank for our moggies and ginger toms.

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Related Topix: Cats, Pets, Archaeology, Anthropology, Science, Life, Hobbies, Genealogy

Davis Enterprise

University orchestra, chorus team up for end-of-year concert

The UC Davis Symphony Orchestra and the University Chorus will appear together in a concert at 7 p.m. Friday at the Mondavi Center.

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Related Topix: Arts, Symphony, Opera, Music, Entertainment

Davis Enterprise

Name droppers: Davis woman on state education panel

Nancy McTygue , executive director of the California History-Social Science Project, based at UC Davis, has taken a seat on the California Instructional Quality Commission, by appointment of the state Board of Education.

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Related Topix: Davis, CA

Sat May 26, 2012

Winston-Salem Journal

Wine-tasters brave heat to try N.C. wines

Winemaker Robert Wurz with Stonefield Cellars Winery served attendees Saturday at the North Carolina Wine Festival.

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Related Topix: North Carolina, Welcome, NC, Stokesdale, NC, Colfax, NC, Lexington, NC

Davis Enterprise

UCD awarded stem cell grants

UC Davis stem cell researchers Kyriacos Athanasiou and W. Douglas Boyd were awarded grants last week totaling $6.6. million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

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Related Topix: Stem Cell Research, Science / Technology, Arthritis, Health

Davis Enterprise

Enthusiastic readers earn lunchtime with Aggie athletes

Ellie Edles, UCD tennis player, sack races with North Davis Elementary students Paloma Campi, Sawyer Schoen and Cody Leveau after the students earned a visit with the athletes by completing a reading challenge.

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Related Topix: Education Etc.

Examiner.com

Social media webcam photos will be used to diagnose health by looking at tongues

Sacramentans may soon be using webcams or smart phones to snap a photo of their tongues and send it to a health professional for diagnosis using the ancient and traditional Chinese medicine practice of zheng, which emphasizes looking at the appearance of your tongue to classify the overall status of your body and your health.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Acupuncture, University of Missouri, Missouri

PhysOrg Weblog

Most occupational injury and illness costs are paid by the government and private payers

UC Davis researchers have found that workers' compensation insurance is not used nearly as much as it should be to cover the nation's multi-billion dollar price tag for workplace illnesses and injuries.

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Related Topix: Health Insurance, Health, Social Security, Medicare, Personal Finance, Medicaid

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Community Favorite: Southern globe thistle

This is one part in a weekly series featuring the UC Davis Community Favorites, 75 can't-fail, easy-care plants well-adapted to our region and recommended by local gardeners.

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Fri May 25, 2012

Science Daily

Math predicts size of clot-forming cells

Because platelets are important both for healing wounds and in strokes and other conditions, a better understanding of how they form and behave could have wide implications.

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Related Topix: Mathematics, Science

Russia Taday

Students in Texas to be monitored with microchips

Phone calls to Prague? Emails to Ecuador? The United States government can currently sift through any international communication that crosses outside of American territory, but all that might soon change.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Bexar County, TX, Science / Technology, RFID News, San Antonio, TX

CBS Local

Two Winters Youths Struck By Drunk Drivers In Same Month

There are only around 6000 people in the city of Winters, and just about 1600 students in the school district, so when not one but two children are hit by drunk drivers in just one month, you can expect a serious reaction.

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Related Topix: Winters, CA, Education Etc.

The Daily Democrat

UC Davis geologist asks for public's help in collecting April meteor samples

A UC Davis, geologist is appealing for public help in tracking down pieces of the meteorite that blew up over El Dorado County on April 22.

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Related Topix: Geology, Science, Collecting, Life, Hobbies, El Dorado County, CA, Coloma, CA, Lotus, CA

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