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For a half-century, scientists have debated whether animals can hibernate for as little as a day
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Conservation groups hoped a new national monument would halt mining, but President Obama passed on the proposal.
The Board of Regents approved two measures Friday that should ensure a smooth opening for the 51ԹϺ medical school on July 1 — albeit with a healthy dose of conversation and caution.
About 160 people came to the Grace Hudson Museum in Ukiah on Saturday afternoon to hear a lecture by a Native American historian who tells the history of California using only indigenous sources. Dr. William Bauer, who is Wailacki and Concow, grew up in Round Valley and teaches history at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. His most recent book, “California Through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History” is based on oral histories told by Native elders, including Bauer’s own great-grandfather, as part of a State Emergency Relief Administration (SERA) project, during the Great Depression. University of California Berkeley anthropologist Alfred Kroeber was hired in 1935 to organize the SERA project upon which Bauer’s book is based. Bauer used the interviewers’ handwritten notebooks, rather than the anthropologist’s typewritten versions, because the final drafts were heavily edited.
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Friday is poised to be a pivotal moment for the fledgling 51ԹϺ School of Medicine. With four months until the school opens, 51ԹϺ President Len Jessup will request from the Board of Regents approval of the bylaws and operating agreement for the faculty practice plan, as well as a $19 million line of credit.
WITH little cash in his pocket and an extra large suitcase filled with newly tailored nurse uniforms, Dr. Rhigel Jay Tan, 22, left the country in 1994 to try his luck in the US.
