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• Pac-12 power ratings: From 0-2 to the division title, a brief history of a steep climb
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• The first day of fall is here. Here are 5 things you probably didn’t know
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• Raiders report card: The kind you’d hide from your parents
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• Downtown neighborhood residents | Residential parking lot not a place for camping
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• Sylvia Milo’s heartbreaking ‘The Other Mozart’ comes to San Jose
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• San Jose: Woman killed by hit-and-run driver on King Road
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• Mapplethorpe-inspired ‘Triptych’ oratorio comes to UC Berkeley
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• Man drowns after underwater marriage proposal
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• 1 in 5 California high schoolers who responded to a state survey say they have considered suicide, analysis shows
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• Sponsored: A rare opportunity to live in the highly desired Sandpiper Cove development of Harbor Bay in Alameda
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• Meet the cast of ‘Survivor: Island of the Idols’
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• Fall fun: Dragon boats, marching bands, beach music, glass pumpkins and BBQ
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• Do You Want to Screw Over Your ISP?
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• Cruzio Met the Aggressive Squirrel
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• Remember Noisy Modems? Imagine a House Full of ‘Em
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• Cruzio Jingle Contest
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• Berdels & Santa Cruz Fiber
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• Oliver’s Internship at Cruzio
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• Women with Large Bra Sizes Spend More Money, and Other Strange Correlations
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• Back in the Day, the Browser was Netscape
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• 2019 Emmy Awards: ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Fleabag’ Win Big, One Last Time
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• Do We Really Understand ‘Fake News’?
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• Leaders, at U.N. Climate Talks, Get Their Chance to Answer Youth Protests
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• Closing My Curtains for Xi Jinping and His Grand Parade
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• 2020 Democrats Go All In on Iowa
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• ‘I Was Begging for Mercy’: How Undercover Officers in Hong Kong Launched a Bloody Crackdown
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• We’re Ignoring the Biggest Cause of the Measles Crisis
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• Catalan separatists arrested in Spain over 'attack plot'
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• Mediator: French weight-loss drug trial over ‘up to 2,000’ deaths begins
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• ‘Howdy, Modi!’: Trump hails Indian PM at ‘historic’ Texas rally
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• Meet Santa Cruz Local, part 5
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• How might district elections reshape Santa Cruz?
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• CITRIS launches Tech for Social Good program at UCSC
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• Scientist creates a ‘ground-breaking’ technique to crack cold cases by extracting DNA from stray strands of HAIR without a root left behind at crime scenes by killers and victims
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• Long Before ‘Netflix and Chill,’ He Was the Netflix C.E.O.
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• Netflix’s first CEO talks about Reed Hastings, negotiating tactics and his dislike of business plans
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• Could the Hangar Become Watsonville’s Abbott Square?
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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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• Santa Cruz County’s Best Breakfasts
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• Food Trucks Expand Santa Cruz Turf
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• Snap Detailed Facebook's Aggressive Tactics in 'Project Voldemort' Dossier
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• HBO Fends Off Streamers at Emmys While Other TV Networks Struggle
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• Challenging Facebook and Google, Apple's New OS Warns Users When Data Is Collected
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• Google Loans Cameras To Volunteers To Fill Gaps in 'Street View'
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• Do Coders Crave a Sense of Control?
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• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 'Nog' Actor Aron Eisenberg Has Died at 50
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• How the Microsoft Store Urges Customers To Trade In Their iPhones
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