Fri, May 9, 2008 -- 5:30 PM Bay Meadows' Final Day Sunday is the last day of the spring racing season at Bay Meadows, the thoroughbred horse racing track in San Mateo. In the fall, the track will be torn down for housing and retail development. We pay Bay Meadows a visit in its final days.
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Thu, May 8, 2008 -- 5:30 PM Solar Power Report Solar power has mostly been small scale in the U.S., with panels feeding electricity to a single building or complex. Now, the group Environment California says solar thermal energy could power the entire nation -- using an amount of land slightly larger than what's already been excavated for strip mining of coal for power plants. The group released the report today.
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Wed, May 7, 2008 -- 5:30 PM Internet Archive Successfully Fights Feds A digital library in San Francisco has successfully fought a federal demand for information about one of its users. Last year, the F.B.I. issued a national security letter to the Internet Archive in San Francisco's Presidio. The agency was demanding records on one of the archive's patrons. Now, Internet Archive says the F.B.I. has settled the lawsuit, and agreed to withdraw the letter and unseal the court case.
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Wed, May 7, 2008 -- 8:33 AM Local Aid to Burma The Burmese community in the Bay Area is struggling to send aid to their homeland following the devastating cyclone that killed 22,000 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless. International aid is starting to trickle into the country now known as Myanmar.
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Tue, May 6, 2008 -- 5:30 PM Oakland Loses American Flights Passengers at Oakland International Airport may be wondering what airline will go next. American Airlines has announced it's discontinuing three daily non-stop flights between Oakland and Dallas. The airline cited soaring fuel costs as the reason. American joins three bankrupt airlines, ATA, Aloha and Skybus in ending service in and out of Oakland.
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Tue, May 6, 2008 -- 8:33 AM Taking Yahoo's Pulse Shareholders and Wall Street analysts are watching Yahoo stock closely today. The Sunnyvale-based Internet giant's shares plunged almost 20 percent during the first hour of trading yesterday, following news that Microsoft has withdrawn its nearly $47.5 billion takeover bid. How has Silicon Valley reacted to the news that Microsoft is out of the picture -- at least for now?
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Mon, May 5, 2008 -- 5:30 PM DNA Database Today, Attorney General Jerry Brown presided at the grand opening of an expanded state DNA lab in Richmond. Brown said the $10 million lab expansion will allow the state to double its DNA database to hold the more than 2 million samples expected over the next five years. The attorney general says the lab's expansion was necessary to handle the flood of DNA samples coming in under voter-approved Proposition 69. That measure, passed four years ago, required law enforcement to collect DNA for every adult convicted of a felony. In January of next year, another provision will go into affect requiring DNA for adults arrested for certain felonies.
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