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Letters to the Editor
Take a look at what people are talking about on our Letters to the Editor page:
Despite troubled recent past, there is still hope for public broadcasting.
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Lachlan Oliver didn't know the first thing about opening a dessert shop. But he knew it was the way he wanted to honor a fallen, sweet-toothed friend.
By DARRYN BENNETTResearchers hope modern technology and a promising compound together will be able to blast tumors without harming healthy tissue.
By DARRYN BENNETTA Poway company is using technology to harness the healing power of adult stem cells, one of the most misunderstood and promising areas of regenerative medicine and modern science.
By RANDY DOTINGAThe station says revenue is down, but doesn't expect programming to be touched.
By RANDY DOTINGAIn a laboratory at the Salk Institute, the retinas of animals that have just died still see. That's opening a window into the inner workings of the sense of sight.
Once an orthotic specialist installing halos and screws to heal spine injuries, Joe Crase spends his days now in his East County bounce-house birthday party central.
One official walks out as airport build-out effort launches.
A wave of veteran Chinese biotech researchers have left San Diego in recent years for higher salaries, promotions and enticing research prospects in China.
Behind many of the hundreds of medical projects subjected to the FDA every year, from lasers to drugs, lies a tale of a San Diego researcher-turned-entrepreneur struggling to raise money.
It would be difficult to find a more paradoxical relationship between product and CEO: WD-40 is known for its simplicity, its lack of fuss, its utility as a cleaner, a lubricant, a rust-fighter. Garry O. Ridge, though, speaks fluent corporate touchy-feely.
The defeat of residential development proposals in Sorrento Valley is indicative of biotech and high-tech interests' rising voice in local politics. In a region already struggling to balance the creation of high-wage jobs with the explosion of low-paying tourism jobs, San Diego has seen some of its most lucrative work options slump with the housing market.
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Featured Stories
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The man who has studied the impacts of comedian Stephen Colbert on political fundraising and friends on obesity talks about his inspiration.
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A couple of Scottish ex-pat shop owners share remedies for homesickness and theories on Americans' affinity for bagpipes.
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Sam the Cooking Guy talks about the worst food he's ever cooked, bizarre ingredient successes and why he'll never eat grilled duck gizzards again.
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The 29-year-old dangles from chandeliers under the big-top at the Del Mar Fairgrounds.
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The founder of Surfing for Peace talks about how waves give him hope for Middle East peace and how he ended up trying to fight for the Israeli army in the Suez Canal Crisis.
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