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  • A local company is preserving John Muir's home for future generations, and they are using a high-tech method to do it.
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  • A popular science training program at the Exploratorium is expanding to accommodate more teachers who want to pick up new skills.
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  • A popular science training program at the Exploratorium is expanding to accommodate more teachers who want to pick up new skills.
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exploratorium, assignment 7, dan ashley
  • Construction has already started on a $300 million Caltrans bypass project in Willits, but the controversy hasn't stopped.
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  • California inmates in Security Housing Units
  • A hunger strike at several California prisons has entered its fourth week as inmates protest the current use of isolation units.
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  • A group of Bay Area doctors teamed up with a hospital in India to create a snake bite treatment that may save peoples lives.
  • A group of Bay Area doctors teamed up with a hospital in India to create a snake bite treatment that may save people's lives.
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  • A news photographer arrested at the site of a controversial construction project has been charged with trespassing and released.
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  • Workers shuck oysters at Drakes Bay Oyster Company
  • The controversial Drakes Bay Oyster Company in Point Reyes will be allowed to stay open for now.
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  • Workers shuck oysters at Drakes Bay Oyster Company
  • The historic Drakes Bay Oyster Co. is continuing its fight to stay open. They've planned a support rally to tell its side of the story.
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  • Drakes Bay Oyster Company oysters
  • The historic Drakes Bay Oyster Farm is getting more support in its fight to remain open.
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  • Teens put finishing touches on science of skateboarding
  • The Exploratorium in San Francisco opened a new exhibit on the science of skateboarding  one of the first traveling exhibits.
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  • CHP removes protester Will Parrish from Caltrans construction site
  • A protester who has been living 50 feet high in a piece of Caltrans equipment is down on the ground and in jail.
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  • Willits protester
  • A protester spent their eighth day perched 50 feet high on a piece of Caltrans equipment.
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  • This is day five for a protester who is perched 50-feet high on a piece of Caltrans equipment at the controversial Willits bypass project.
  • This is day five for a protester who is perched 50-feet high on a piece of Caltrans equipment at the controversial Willits bypass project.
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  • Willits town sign
  • While a judge decides the fate of a multimillion-dollar bypass in Willits, project opponents are taking matters into their own hands.
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  • Five people were arrested Wednesday as protesters forced Caltrans to stop work on a controversial highway project.
  • Five people were arrested Wednesday as protesters forced Caltrans to stop work on a controversial highway project.
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  • Protesters shut down work on a controversial Caltrans project Wednesday.
  • Protesters shut down work on a controversial Caltrans project Wednesday.
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  • Willits town sign
  • Caltrans plans to spend $210 million on a bypass around Willits, but opponents say it's a waste of money for an empty freeway.
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  • Artists find backers online
  • Artists have always struggled to find places to fund or sell their artwork, but the Internet is making that easier.
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  • A couple of winemakers trying to make it in a traditional industry are finding success with a most untraditional marketing campaign.
  • A couple of winemakers trying to make it in a traditional industry are finding success with a most untraditional marketing campaign.
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  • Claude, the albino alligator at San Franciscos Academy of Sciences.
  • ABC7 News was the only crew on hand when an albino alligator got his annual check-up.
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  • Store surveillance camera
  • When you shop, you're being watched. Not just by security. Some privacy advocates are upset over new, big brother-like technology.
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retail, shopping, internet, assignment 7, jonathan bloom
  • It turns out office graffiti is becoming a thing in the tech world.
  • Graffiti is a major problem in most cities, but it turns out office graffiti is becoming a thing in the tech world.
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  • Arduino computer
  • Imagine a computer that fits in your hand and costs less than 50 bucks. Well, there is one, and it's taking the world by storm.
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  • A rent control case at a Bay Area mobile home park could affect hundreds of thousands of California mobile home residents.
  • Residents of a mobile home park won a major victory in a case that could affect hundreds of thousands of mobile home residents.
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  • Experienced SF police investigators will be leaving in droves
  • The Deferred Retirement Option Program will be ending at the end of June, taking with it a lot of experienced police investigators.
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SFPD, retirement, jobs, crime, assignment 7, vic lee
  • Middle school can be a testing ground between childhood and young adulthood. But an enlightened teacher has found a way to fight bullying by putting it on a big screen.
  • Middle school can be a testing ground between childhood and young adulthood.
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children, assignment 7, wayne freedman
  • There is an elite university in Silicon Valley that the best and brightest are fighting to get into.
  • There is an elite university in Silicon Valley that the best and brightest are fighting to get into.
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