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11 city high schools make US News 'best' list
SAN DIEGO -- Eleven San Diego campuses made the list of best high schools in the nation released Tuesday by US News and World Report magazine. The schools, 10 of which are in the San Diego Unified School District and one which is a charter school, all...
Tags: Patrick Henry, Colleges and Universities, Newspaper and Magazine, Periodicals, Academic Progress
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Body in cave ID'd as missing UCSD student
SAN DIEGO -- A body found at the bottom of a 60-foot-deep earthen shaft in the Anza-Borrego Desert last weekend is that of a college student who went missing while exploring mud caves in the rugged area with relatives and friends a month ago, the county...
Tags: Caves and Caverns, Landforms
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FDA blocks misleading sunscreens
Fox 5 San Diego Anchor/ReporterPOWAY, Calif. -- New rules for sunscreen labeling drafted by the Federal Drug Administration in 2011 will take effect this summer. "It's good because they're trying to make order before there was no order. The FDA is also giving the consumer some...Tags: Vitamin E, Immune System, Dermatologists, Mole (lesion), Vitamin C
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UCSD student forgotten in DEA holding cell for days
SAN DIEGO - Officials were investigating how a college student in their custody wound up forgotten in a holding cell for four days, apparently without food or water. The man, identified by news outlets as 23-year-old UCSD engineering student Daniel...
Tags: Science and Technology
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Engineer tapped to be new chancellor at UCSD
SAN DIEGO -- The dean of Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering was named Thursday to be the next chancellor of UC San Diego, pending approval by the University of California Board of Regents. Pradeep K. Khosla's selection was announced by...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Education, Technology, Science and Technology
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Ron Paul to speak at UCSD
SAN DIEGO -- Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul is scheduled to speak at a town hall at UC San Diego Friday evening. The Texas congressman, the only Republican still challenging part-time La Jolla resident Mitt Romney, the expected GOP presidential...
Tags: Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Politics, Laura Ingraham, Republican National Conventions
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UCSD accepts record freshman class for fall
SAN DIEGO -- More than 60,000 students applied to UC San Diego and nearly 23,000 would-be freshmen were accepted for fall classes, the university announced Tuesday. Out of 60,800 applicants, 22,947 were admitted as incoming freshmen. Both figures rank as...
Tags: Students, Education, Teaching and Learning
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UCSD simulates quake impact on 5-story building
SAN DIEGO -- A series of tests on the effect of earthquakes on multistory buildings began Tuesday in Scripps Ranch. The university's earthquake simulator, the largest of its kind, started testing Tuesday the impact of temblors ranging in magnitude from...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Health, Natural Disasters, Technology, Science and Technology
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Search for missing woman ends tragically
FOX5 San Diego ReporterFALLBROOK, Calif. -- Investigators searching for a missing 22-year-old North County military wife feared slain since last week found an unidentified body Tuesday in Riverside County, several hours after a woman was arrested on suspicion of murder in the...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Crime, Law and Justice, Health, Crimes, Police Arrests
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Dalai Lama: Compassion 'most important part of life'
SAN DIEGO -- Compassion is a necessary attribute for human survival, the 14th Dalai Lama told a crowd of about 12,000 people Thursday at San Diego State University as he wrapped up a two-day visit to the city. "Compassion is a most important part of...
Tags: Dalai Lama, Entertainment Events, Human Interest, Jerry Sanders, Nobel Prize Awards
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Dalai Lama discusses climate change at UCSD
Fox 5 San Diego ReporterLA JOLLA, Calif. -- Opening his visit to San Diego with good humor and peace, His Holiness the Dalai Lama began two days of discussion at University of California San Diego Wednesday. "Usually when I give a talk, no notes," Dalai Lama told an attentive...Tags: Global Warming, Colleges and Universities, Dalai Lama, Environmental Issues, Education
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Fistfight ends in gunfire
SAN DIEGO -- A young teenager pulled a gun and opened fire on another during a fight in a Grant Hill-area neighborhood Friday, leaving the victim with an apparently non-life-threatening wound. The shooting at 27th and J streets was reported shortly...
Tags: Shootings
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