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KAZU The Ones That Never Reopened: The Pandemic’s Impact On Local Businesses
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The Washington Post 1 in 6 Gen Z adults are LGBT. And this number could continue to grow.
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Nature Closing in on a complete human genome
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Earth Island Journal Wildfire, Landslides Threaten California’s Endangered Black Abalone
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Aaron Jones, interim Educational Opportunity Programs director, founded the orientation program Black Academy, which has dramatically increased African Black Caribbean students' retention rate at UCSC.
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New research shows that energy spent avoiding humans is linked to smaller home ranges for male pumas—a worrisome shift that could affect population health.
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