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7 hrs ago | The Huffington Post

Sam Gustin: Job of the Week: UC-Santa Cruz is hiring a Grateful Dead archivist

Hey, Wall Streeters: Fed up with your job trading now-worthless derivatives? Angry at The System for not recognizing systemic risk? Annoyed that your corporate Yankees box got yanked? Perhaps you should consider a career change.

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Related Topix: The Grateful Dead, Pop/Rock

Thu Nov 12, 2009

New Yorker

Margaret Talbot: Can we learn to rewrite our bad dreams?

ABSTRACT: ANNALS OF SCIENCE about nightmares. Writer visits the Miamonides Sleep Arts & Sciences center in Albuquerque and describes the cases of several patients who had come to the clinic for help with persistent nightmares.

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Wed Nov 11, 2009

JamBase

Now Hiring: Grateful Dead Archivist

Jerry Garcia by Blakesberg The University Library of the University of California, Santa Cruz, seeks an enterprising, creative, and service-oriented archivist to join the staff of Special Collections & Archives as Archivist for the Grateful Dead Archive .

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Related Topix: The Grateful Dead, Pop/Rock, Jerry Garcia

Science, Industry and Business

Studies show marine reserves can be an effective tool for managing fisheries

Studies conducted in California and elsewhere provide support for the use of marine reserves as a tool for managing fisheries and protecting marine habitats, according to biologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Related Topix: Biology, Science, Ecology, North America, World News, Mexico,

Tue Nov 10, 2009

The Toronto Star

Wanted: Grateful Dead librarian

If you were there in '77 at the Barton Hall show at Cornell when Jerry Garcia absolutely tore up 'St. Stephen', well, that wouldn't hurt.

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Related Topix: The Grateful Dead, Pop/Rock, Libraries, Jerry Garcia, US Travel, Travel

Santa Cruz Sentinel

Popping out baby fish: Marine reserves can restock waters, say scientists

Protecting baby shellfish and mollusks from fishing nets in marine reserves helps replenish adult fish in open waters, according to UC Santa Cruz biologists.

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Related Topix: Santa Cruz, CA, Santa Cruz Metro, World News, Mexico

Daily Trojan

Offbeat bus tours uncover the esoteric side of LA

Ask anyone what first comes to mind when they think of Los Angeles, and he or she will mention the glitz and the glam, the celebrity tabloids, Hollywood mansions and palm tree-lined freeways.

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Related Topix: Downtown (Los Angeles, CA), Los Angeles, CA, Raymond Chandler, Alternative, Santa Cruz, Downtown (Washington, DC), Offbeat

Mon Nov 09, 2009

Relix

You Can Be the Grateful Dead's Archivist

The University Library of the University of California, Santa Cruz, which currently houses the Grateful Dead Archives, is searching for an archivist for its lauded collection.

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Rhonda L. Farrell Joins the Ranks of Leading Professionals

SAN LEANDRO, CA, November 3, 2009 /Cambridge Who's Who/ -- Rhonda L. Farrell has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership, and excellence in information technology.

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Related Topix: San Leandro, CA, US Military, US Marine Corps, US News, Hayward, CA

Sun Nov 08, 2009

Santa Cruz Sentinel

25 at UCSC earn more than $200K

Although 25 administrators and professors at UC Santa Cruz earned $200,000 or more in 2008, the campus has the lowest faculty salaries of all nine of the University of California's undergraduate campuses, according to salary information released recently by the university.

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Related Topix: Santa Cruz, CA, Santa Cruz Metro, UC Berkeley, 9

Sat Nov 07, 2009

Santa Cruz Sentinel

As You See It: Nov. 7, 2009

I, too, have watched the 1996 movie "The Ghost and The Darkness," and where initially I believed it to be another total Hollywood fabrication, I was surprised through reading the mentioned books how close the movie stayed on track, though liberties were taken.

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Related Topix: Santa Cruz, CA, Prison, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Aptos, CA, Opinion

Fri Nov 06, 2009

KTVU

Mysterious Porpoise Deaths Blamed On Berzerk Dolphins

Marine biologists have figured out why a growing number of dead harbor porpoises have been found on California beaches in recent years: dolphin attacks.

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Related Topix: Moss Landing, CA, Santa Barbara, CA

Santa Cruz Sentinel

Stimulus money pours into Santa Cruz, extent of job creation unclear

The county has received nearly $100 million in federal stimulus funds, including money to replace the old Davenport water treatment plant Nearly $100 million of federal stimulus has been awarded in Santa Cruz County, according to government data released this week.

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Related Topix: Santa Cruz Metro, Santa Cruz, CA, Davenport, CA, Santa Cruz County, CA

Thu Nov 05, 2009

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Ousted Honduran leader asks Clinton stand on coup

In a letter sent to the U.S. State Department on Wednesday, Zelaya asked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "to clarify to the Honduran people if the position condemning the coup d'etat has been changed or modified." His request came after Washington's top envoy to Latin America, Thomas Shannon, told CNN en Espanol that the U.S. will recognize the ...

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Related Topix: Hillary Clinton, US Politics, US News

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Science News

Giant galaxy graveyard grows

A gigantic galactic graveyard lurks in the distant universe, and the death toll is growing.

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Related Topix: Astronomy, Science, Science / Technology

Ledger Dispatch

Scientists propose a "genome zoo" of 10,000 vertebrate species, to be ...

The University of California-Santa Cruz could someday house the world's largest zoo - holding not live animals, but the genetic codes of 10,000 different creatures, many of them rare, exotic or extinct.

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Related Topix: Santa Cruz, CA, Santa Cruz Metro, UC Berkeley

EurekAlert!

Singapore scientists join international study of 10,000 vertebrates' genomes

'Genomes contain information from the past -- they are molecular fossils,' said Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner, M.D. The Singapore laboratory that deciphered the DNA codes, or genomes, of the famed fugu and elephant shark, has joined The Genome 10K Project, an international effort to build an invaluable repository of DNA sequences on 10,000 species ...

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Related Topix: Cell Biology, Biology, Science

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Santa Cruz Sentinel

UCSC astronomer to hold talk about Thirty Meter Telescope at the Del Mar

The 1-inch lens through which Galileo saw mountains on the moon is a thousand times smaller than the lens of the Thirty Meter Telescope, which will let scientists observe galaxies at the beginning of the universe.

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Related Topix: Astronomy, Science, Santa Cruz, CA

Mon Nov 02, 2009

News.com.au

Kenya's Tsavo lions 'only ate 72 humans'

The lions attacked and devoured workers building the Ugandan Railway line through Kenya during several months in 1898, stalling construction and creating a legend that became fodder for the 1996 movie The Ghost and the Darkness .

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Raw Story

Man-eating lions of Tsavo less voracious than thought: study

The two man-eating lions of Tsavo which terrorized a railroad camp in Kenya and have inspired three Hollywood films may not have been as deadly as legend would have it, a study published Monday has found.

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