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• Horoscopes Nov. 19, 2019: Jodie Foster, face your demons
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• County unemployment rate drops to 3.3% in October
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• For No-Shave November, local law enforcement lets it grow
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• What we learned at 49ers HQ Monday: Dee Ford could miss Packers
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• Santa Cruz brings virtual view to climate change conversation
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• FBI: Investigation into accused Chinese spy includes multimillion-dollar Bay Area hotel deals
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• Of cupcakes and hockey sticks: Sharks say they have routines, but not superstitions
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• Latest regulations safeguard 140,000 square miles off the West Coast
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• Letter: NRA a Russian asset in 2016 and has ties to Trump
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• Bridge: Nov. 19, 2019
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• Word Game: Nov. 19, 2019
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• Harriette Cole: He told me to lighten up about his flirting with strangers
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• Letter: Sickening to see BART rules being broken and not get angry
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• Horoscopes Nov. 19, 2019: Jodie Foster, face your demons
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• Ask Amy: The one who didn’t help clean Dad’s house is denied the spoils
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• Miss Manners: They didn’t invite me to the wedding, then demanded I apologize
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• Dear Abby: She altered and reposted our private photos!
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• When the Power is Out
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• The Great Cruzio Internet Jingle Competition
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• 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake Photos
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• Cruzio Celebrates 30 Years of Geekdom
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• Cruzio and the Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989
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• Save the date! November 1st, 2019
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• Saving the Planet
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• Blind Student’s Violent Treatment at Oxford Debate Prompts Resignations
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• The Mister Rogers No One Saw
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• A Broken Promise on Taxes
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• We Put Hong Kong on the 52 Places to Go List. Things Got Complicated.
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• Philanthropists Bench Women of Color, the M.V.P.s of Social Change
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• Republicans Can Win Back the Suburbs. Here’s How.
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• Bill Barr, the Man From 1980
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• Republicans Are Following Trump to Nowhere
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• Hong Kong Protests: More than 1,000 Detained at a University and a Warning From Beijing
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• What to Expect From the Impeachment Inquiry Hearings
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• US state department official quits amid 'inflated CV' claims
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• US and Australian hostages 'freed in Taliban prisoner swap'
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• US settlement move endorses 'law of the jungle' – Palestinians
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• Hong Kong Polytechnic University: Protesters still inside as standoff continues
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• New hope for one of world's most endangered reptiles
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• Was Taylor Swift really banned from playing her hits?
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• Jeffery Epstein 'wielded great villainous power'
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• Nawaz Sharif: Ex-PM leaves Pakistan for medical treatment
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• Australia fires: Sydney blanketed by smoke from NSW bushfires
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• Australia fires: Sydney blanketed by smoke from NSW bushfires
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• What to watch in local government this week – 11.17.19
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• Digital NEST announces matching grant, double your impact
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• UC Santa Cruz collaborates on $14M project to advance cryptographic computing technologies
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• SapientX Adds 35 New Languages to Its Digital Assistant Software
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• Boosting diversity, inclusion, and representation in science journalism
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• NextSpace Santa Cruz a Beacon of Light During PG&E Power Outages
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• Spritzer Trend Comes to Santa Cruz
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• Sweet Curls Reinvents Santa Cruz Ice Cream
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• Terroir in a Jar Finds Life for Farms’ Unsellable Foods
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• MIT Teaches Autonomous Cars How To Deal With Selfish Drivers
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• China Now Launches More Rockets Than Anyone In the World
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• 'Royalty-Free' Music Supplied By YouTube Results In Mass Video Demonetization
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• Woman Who Inherited Huntington's Disease Sues Doctors
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• Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data From Cayman National Bank
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