Red Tape: Above Streetlights, Bathed in Starlight
At the coastline, sailboats and oil platforms take up the shining torch, stretching out toward the horizon where they meet the sky, and turn the entire world into one giant field of stars.
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At the coastline, sailboats and oil platforms take up the shining torch, stretching out toward the horizon where they meet the sky, and turn the entire world into one giant field of stars.
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"The Wide Blue Road" is a film about a town of fishermen in Italy in the midst of a post-World War II economic slump
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Some of you may remember a column I wrote about my troubles with the phone company. What happened then was just the beginning. For the next two months my bills from Verizon failed to credit me for my ...
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The money will be used to support programs at the ITP that are not federal funding targets, to provide immediate funds for cutting-edge research and for a physical expansion of Kohn Hall, which houses...
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Robert Ballard, world-famous oceanographer and discoverer of the Titanic, graduated here in 1965 and is widely considered to be UCSB's golden child - and he has certainly gone a long way.
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UCSB is a member of the Association of American Universities, a list of the 60 leading colleges in the U.S. and Canada. We were also ranked the second best public research institution in the U.S., as ...
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Robert Ballard, UCSB alumnus, famed oceanographer and deep-sea explorer, returned on Wednesday to speak in Campbell Hall. He spent his first few minutes on stage attempting to remember what he had lea...
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U.S. politicians have generally agreed, to the point of grandstanding at times, that cloning a human would be an unconscionable and unethical act. They just never got around to outlawing it.
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Try as I might, I couldn't place it. Then without warning, it happened. The orchestra on the PA system began playing Simon & Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence."
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NASA's latest expedition is to hell -- in a hand basket.
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Next July, Tonga will be the recipient of the most advanced wireless communications network in the world. This hi-tech facelift comes with many difficulties, controversies and unanswered questions.
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If you blinked, you may have missed it. On Oct. 23rd at 7:26 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, NASA's newest Mars probe, Odyssey, slipped safely into orbit around the red planet with little fanfare. Scienti...
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My problem is not so much with reality television. It's more with the fact that it's hard to find anything else on sometimes.
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After two and a half years at UCSB I am still unsettled by professors using obscenely outdated statistics to make points about gender inequality.
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My last computer fried when a glass of water spilled over it. I'm tempted to do the same to my new one -- and this time it will be on purpose.
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