New Alternative Spring Break Empowers Students in Climate Resilience and Local Activism

The program welcomes students from any major to enroll in HSU’s first alternative spring break with a specific focus on climate change.
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California voters will consider a tax break for rainwater collection systems with Proposition 72 in June

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Give us a break (or not)

We don’t have intermissions in long movies, neither should we have them in tense and involving plays.

Morrie Markoff

Los Angeles

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The next time you see a play with an intermission, check the line outside the women’s lavatory. It is long. I leave my seat the moment the first act curtain starts…

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African-American leaders call on CDC to break silence on gun violence

African-American public health leaders are calling on the CDC to break their silence on gun violence and recognize it as a public health crisis.


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Hospitals Can Break Through the “Wall of Silence” Using New National Toolkit Based on U-M Approach

Newswise imageA new toolkit for hospitals aims to break down the “wall of silence” that often rises after something goes wrong in a patient’s care. Created by AHRQ, it’s based in part on an approach adopted years ago by the U-M Health System and tested at more than a dozen hospitals.
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Mycologist says our close relatives break the bounds of biology

The mushroom nicknamed “death cap” made headlines this summer when it poisoned Syrian refugees fleeing through Eastern Europe. But it was cooperation, not toxicity, that attracted one researcher to Amanita phalloides.
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