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A festival next weekend will celebrate sustainable farming and the effort to keep open two state parks on the Merced River.

Samsung's latest Windows Phone device has two key things going for it: slick looks and a low $50 price tag.

NEW YORK -- I suppose a place exists for sector investing. The mutual fund and ETF industries certainly need this to be the case.

Virgin Atlantic boss Steve Ridgway could be excused for feeling bitter or discouraged after failing to convince European competition regulators that International Airlines Group, parent of arch-rival British Airways, shouldn't be allowed to buy BMI from Lufthansa Group.

The spring home-buying season is well underway in San Francisco, as historically low interest rates and a limited supply of homes for sale have prompted nascent home buyers to pull the trigger.

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People around the world show remarkable similarity in their daily eating habits: meals start off healthy in the morning, but get progressively worse throughout the day - until by nightfall we're deep into junk food territory.

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Ansel Adams was part of a group of San Francisco realistic landscape photographers who called themselves Group f/64. The name came from their desire to achieve maximum depth of field .

American Showman -- Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry by Ross Melnick, Columbia '12, 538 pages, ASIN #0231159048. Index, bibliography, In the few instances in which a book crosses our desks containing 100 or more pages of notes, we usually can be sure it addresses a serious scientific, literary or historic subject ... (more)

NEWS ANALYSIS: May 18, 2012 was an historic day in the life of 8-year-old Facebook, and the bank accounts are now loaded.

The Center for Responsible Enterprise And Trade welcomes today's statement by the Group of Eight affirming the importance of effective private sector-led action to protect intellectual property throughout global supply chains.

Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg sent a message to newly wealthy employees of the largest social-networking service on the day of its delayed stock-market debut: "Stay focused" and "keep hacking." The words were emblazoned on T-shirts handed out during a gathering of more than 2,000 people at the company's Menlo Park, ... (more)

"This should never have happened ... I can't justify it." JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon apologizing for a $2 billion loss at a shareholders meeting before being awarded $23 million in salary and bonuses "If your favorite nominee does not get the nomination, get over it.

Maria Shriver, award-winning television journalist, best-selling author and former first lady of California, had some unexpected advice for her daughter and other graduates of USC's Annenberg School of Communication last week: Hit the pause button.

It's Even Worse Than It Looks -- How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism by Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Orenstein, BasicBooks '12, $26, 226 pages, ASIN #0465031331. Index, notes, no bibliography, a few b&w images sprinkled through text.

A lunar eclipse in Gemini has people blabbing about feelings, revealing too much.

OMG A 's Healthcare Domain Task Force presents "Healthcare Interoperability: 'Focus on SOA and Modeling' Workshop and Information Day; " a one-day special event on Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge in Cambridge MA.

NEEDHAM, Mass. -- -- OMG 's Healthcare Domain Task Force presents "Healthcare Interoperability: 'Focus on SOA and Modeling' Workshop and Information Day; " a one-day special event on Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge in Cambridge MA.

Times are tough all over, and Pinole is no exception. How the city and its residents are coping with city budget cuts will be the subject of a San Francisco public radio station's Wednesday report on the role of volunteers in the community.