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- Crash Takes the Life of 'a Natural Leader'
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- Litton Awarded Contract With U.S. Patent Office
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- Alatorre's Ex-Secretary Questions Cash's Source
- Coming Down Hard
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- Fighting the Bullets on New Year's Eve
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- Orange Coast Aligns Health Care Programs
- Police Seek 2 After Fight Leaves 1 Man Dead, 1 Hurt
- Kaczynski's Brother Denounces Rejection of Plea Bargain
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- UCI Forum Will Dig Into Mayan Culture
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- City Says Party's Over for Cal State Fullerton Frat
- Bruins Anticipating Burst of Emotion
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- "You Can Prevent Breast Cancer!", By Harvey Diamond, Alternative Audio, Two cassettes, Length: Three hours, $17.95, Read by the author
- Sifting Through Myths, Facts About Apple
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- Notre Dame Loses Rematch to LSU
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- "The Arthritis Cure" By Jason Theodosakis, MD, MS, MPH; Brenda Adderly, MHA; and Barry Fox, PhD, Harper Audio, Two cassettes, Length: Three hours, $18, Read by Adderly
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- Different View of Hull Injury
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- Journal Apologizes for Book Review
- Homicides in L.A. Drop to Lowest Total in 20 Years
- You Think You Had a Bad Year? These Guys Really Take the Prize
- Warm-Weather Practices a Kick for Washington State's Lindell
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- Charges of Sex Harassment Rock Schools
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- Clippers' Wright Doing the Job
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- Separate Judicial Fiction From Reality
- Fountain Valley Offers Courses to Get Juices Flowing
- Detectives Seeking 3 Women on Warrants
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