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Monday, November 23, 2009

Ward's Auto.com, Nov. 23, 2009 6:40a.m.

STREET Computer Model Predicts Future Effects of Alternative Fuels

A new University of California at Irvine computer model claims to allow policymakers and auto industry leaders to accurately gauge the effects of alternative transportation fuels decades into the...

UCI MENTIONED: ...Computer Model Predicts Future Effects of Alternative Fuels A new University of California at Irvine computer model claims to allow policymakers...  Full Story »

Alter Net Blogs, Nov. 22, 2009 4:26a.m.

Hard-liners Peddle Zombie Lies About Immigrants and Crime

A new report flies in the face of 100 years of data showing immigrants are less likely to commit serious crimes than the native...

UCI MENTIONED: ...in most disadvantaged urban neighborhoods. Or Rubén G. Rumbaut, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, who observes...  Full Story »

CBS news, Nov. 21, 2009 8:13p.m.

UC Students Erupt Over Tuition Hikes

Protestors Barricaded Themselves to Buildings, Marched in Streets over 32 Percent...

UCI MENTIONED: ...Our job is to come here and get educated," said Meghan Camacho, a UC Irvine student. But now, they also have to learn new ways to pay for it.  Full Story »

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (AP), Nov. 21, 2009 3:59a.m.

Experts: Success unlikely in Kevin Cooper's bid to Supreme Court

Download: Brief 1 | Brief 2 Like all petitioners to the U.S. Supreme Court, Death Row inmate Kevin Cooper has a very slim chance of the court hearing his decades-old murder case, according to legal...

UCI MENTIONED: ...correcting mistakes in lower courts, even in death penalty cases," said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Irvine School of Law. "They really...  Full Story »

Investors.com, Nov. 20, 2009 3:57p.m.

Survival Of Darwin's Theories

On Dec. 27, 1831 after waiting for refitting, weather and a drunken crew HMS Beagle launched its three-year, global exploration. The length of a basketball court and half as wide, the British ship crammed food, supplies, 10 guns and 70 men on...

UCI MENTIONED: ...is the most important scientist in history," Francisco Ayala, a biology professor at the University of California, Irvine, told IBD. "And he...  Full Story »

The Christian Science Monitor (AP), Nov. 20, 2009 12:28p.m.

Fewer hate crimes in 2008, Obama's election year, data show

Reported hate crimes dropped 2 percent in 2008 from 2007 levels. Is rising 'atmosphere of rage' a threat to...

UCI MENTIONED: ...civilization. I get it," says Valerie Jenness, a criminologist at the University of California at Irvine and author of "Hate Crimes: New Social Movements...  Full Story »

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