A two-year community college such as the College of San Mateo would not ordinarily be expected to host an internationally known foreign scholar for a full semester. But, this spring, CSM boasts its first Fulbright Scholar in Residence.Japanese professor Yukio Tsuda, 52, is teaching a 15-week course in intercultural communication at the Hillsdale Avenue campus while also preparing advanced lectures for the linguistics faculties of Stanford University and the University of Washington.
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The three old-timers laughing in the sunny Sky Kitchen restaurant at county-operated San Carlos Airport had just realized that, between them, they had more than 150 years of experience at piloting airplanes, mostly over the Peninsula.Flying instructors Dale Kuhns and Bill Heinecke, both 70, began taking flight lessons in the mid-1950s. Businessman Jay Quetnick, 86, started in 1939 at Palo Alto Airport, taking college pilot training funded by the U.S. Army Air Force prior to WWII.
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In April of last year, life for the Hosking family began to revolve around the weekly blood test of older daughter Michelle. Would the 8-year-old’s blood cell and platelet counts go up or down? So far, the results have been inconsistent, even since the child’s September blood marrow transplant at famed Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto.
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An ambitious plan is moving forward to upgrade the historic Sanchez Adobe site on Linda Mar Boulevard into a true "walk through time" that brings the past alive with a much broader appeal to attract more visitors.The Sanchez Adobe is now primarily popular as a Bay Area school tour destination. Some 6,500 third- and fourth-graders take the interactive tours during the school year, participating in Rancho-period activities that include roping wooden calf models, adobe brick making, corn grinding and candle making.
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Local officials expressed anger and concern at the news that Virgin America expects its application to start flying to be rejected as early as this week by the U.S. Department of Transportation.Losing the long-planned airline would be a significant blow to the region, especially to Burlingame, where Virgin America is headquartered. The Bay Area might find itself with 3,000 fewer jobs, a $140 million annual salary loss, a $240 million business revenue loss and a $24 million loss in state and local taxes, according to a Bay Area Economic Forum analysis.
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From the Presidio to Point Reyes, from the Marin Headlands and Mount Tamalpais to Crystal Springs Lakes, the Golden Gate National Recreation Area is a national treasure located in the Bay Area’s backyard. It has become a model for the entire world on how to create a breathtaking national park in a densely populated urban area.
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The often-tense relationship between Allied Waste and local municipal customers hit another low point Tuesday, when the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors launched an investigation into rate and service complaints and the recent resignation of two key executives.The board will look into the resignations last week of Peninsula General Manager Chris Valbusa and District Manager Bill Jones, as well as an 11.74 percent rate increase for unincorporated area residences and an apparent spate of service quality complaints.
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The Board of Supervisors on Monday unanimously allocated $200,000 to begin a Blue Ribbon Committee study of whether universal health care could be made available to low-income county adults, as it already is for children.The vote in Monday's budget hearings came despite an expected $14 million increase in the county subsidy required to maintain the San Mateo Medical Center, bringing it to $65 million, or 41.3 percent, of the county's general-fund budget. The medical center provides care for a large number of uninsured or underinsured county residents.
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The abandoned infant was left in a paper bag and a bath towel at the entrance to Filoli Estate in Woodside on the frosty evening of Dec. 30, 1987. The temperaturewas already 42 degrees and dropping fast.She survived only because California Highway Patrol Officer Steve Gibbons pulled over to stretch his legs at 6:04 p.m. and heard crying in the darkness. He rushed the newborn baby to Sequoia Hospital, where nurses dubbed the 6-pound, 4-ounce blue-eyed girl "Miraculous Mary."
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