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CSU chancellor says 10,000 students may be turned away next fall
(11-17) 14:30 PST LONG BEACH -- About 10,000 eligible students may be barred from admission at California State University's 23 campuses next fall, Chancellor Charles Reed said today.
San Francisco Chronicle

Even as winds calm, more Californians flee fires
DIAMOND BAR, Calif. – More residents of Southern California were urged to leave their homes Sunday despite calming winds that allowed a major aerial attack on wildfires that have destroyed hundreds of homes and blanketed the region in smoke.
Yahoo! News

Obama weighs Clinton, Richardson as sec. of state
By NEDRA PICKLER Associated Press Writer
President-elect Barack Obama is interviewing some of his one-time political opponents as he ponders building his own "team of rivals" to help him run the country.
SacBee

Schwarzenegger won't join Prop. 8 fight
By Kevin Yamamura kyamamura@sacbee.com
Published: Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Sunday he will not join legislative Democrats in a court fight against Proposition 8 despite his opposition to the same-sex marriage ban, but he believes the courts ultimately should and will allow such marriages in California.
SacBee

Iraqi Cabinet Approves Security Pact With U.S.
By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
Ministers overwhelmingly approved an agreement setting conditions for the Americans’ continued presence in Iraq, sending the measure to Parliament
The New York Times

Are attacks on Mormon sites hate crimes?
By Jennifer Garza jgarza@sacbee.com
Published: Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008 Page 3A
Federal officials have launched a preliminary inquiry into whether recent acts of vandalism against Mormon temples and meeting houses are hate crimes, a department spokesman said Friday.
SacBee

India celebrates planting its flag on moon
By GAVIN RABINOWITZ, Associated Press Writer Gavin Rabinowitz, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 35 mins ago
NEW DELHI – India rejoiced Saturday at joining an elite club by planting its flag on the moon as the country's space agency released the first pictures of the cratered surface taken by its maiden lunar mission.
Yahoo! News

California judge rules only nurses can give insulin to kids
By Melissa Nix mnix@sacbee.com
Published: Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008 Page 1A
A Sacramento Superior Court ruling Friday marks a major shift in the treatment of nearly 14,000 California schoolchildren with diabetes.
Judge Lloyd Connelly sided with the California School Nurses Organization, the American Nurses Association, the California Nurses Association and other nursing groups in their challenge to a 2007 rule that enabled trained school staff – not just school nurses – to administer insulin shots to diabetic kids.
SacBee

Images captured of 4 planets outside solar system
WASHINGTON – Earth seems to have its first fuzzy photos of alien planets outside our solar system, images captured by two teams of astronomers. The pictures show four likely planets that appear as specks of white, nearly indecipherable except to the most eagle-eyed experts. All are trillions of miles away — three of them orbiting the same star, and the fourth circling a different star.
Yahoo! News

United flight saves fuel using green technology
George Raine, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, November 15, 2008
(11-14) 18:26 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- United Airlines Flight 870 flew from Sydney to San Francisco on Friday, saving 1,664 gallons of fuel and 32,656 pounds of carbon emissions by using new technologies and more accommodating air traffic control procedures.
San Francisco Chronicle

Animal shelters perk up over First Pooch candidates
Shelter dogs are in the spotlight as the Obamas search for a White House puppy. Many are hypoallergenic too.
By Carla Hall November 15, 2008
Wanted: Presidential First Puppy. Should be less than a year old. Only hypoallergenic dogs need apply. Poodles and doodles especially welcome. Yorkies, bichon frises, Cairn terriers, Westies, cockapoos and wheaten terriers also encouraged. Must be doing time in a city or county shelter, foster home or private rescue facility. Will be vetted by incoming first daughters, Sasha,7, and Malia, 10. Position is highly competitive.
Los Angeles Times

Mexico City to give out Viagra to men 70 and older
Thursday, November 13, 2008
(11-13) 17:41 PST MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) --
Mexico City is giving out free Viagra and other impotence drugs to men 70 and older.
Mayor Marcelo Ebrard says the city is implementing the plan because sexuality "has a lot to do with quality of life and our happiness."
San Francisco Chronicle

"Pregnant man" pregnant again
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Thomas Beatie, who was born a woman but lives as a man in Oregon after surgery and hormone treatment, is expecting a second child, Beatie has told Barbara Walters in an interview set to air on television on Friday.
Yahoo! News

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