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SF Fails to Produce Evidence It Follows Encampment Clearing Policy
The city can’t prove it’s following a policy requiring staff to advise homeless people to separate essential items during ...
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Hostility Plagues LGBTQ Latin American Immigrants Seeking Addiction Recovery Support
Scores of LGBTQ refugees come to San Francisco to escape threats in Latin American countries that have weak protections for ...
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Cold War Scientists Pushed Ethical Boundaries With Radiation Experiments
The success of the atomic bomb program deeply unnerved some of the scientists responsible. Manhattan Project leader J. Robert Oppenheimer’s later qualms are well known. But even before the first ...
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Destroyed Records, Dying Witnesses Consign San Francisco Radiation Lab to Obscurity
After running the world’s first doctoral program in radiation biology, James Newell Stannard spent his retirement researching “Radioactivity and Health: A History.” The exhaustive record of the ...
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Human Radiation Studies Included Mock Combat, Skin Tests and a Plan to Inject 49ers
In early 1955, San Francisco 49ers management agreed to make its players guinea pigs in a radiation experiment, according to a series of letters hashing out the “completed arrangements” between the ...
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After Atomic Test Blunder, Government Authorized Study of Radiation in Humans
The first people known to have been exposed to radiation by the U.S. Navy in San Francisco were part of an atomic cleanup crew. Wrapped in cotton overalls and clunky gas masks, with pockets sewn shut ...
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Attempt to Recall SF Supervisor Engardio Faces Uphill Battle
For months, the writing was on the wall: A cadre of west side San Franciscans wanted to recall District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio for supporting Proposition K, which would begin the process to turn a ...
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State Commission Gives Green Light to Close SF’s Great Highway to Cars
The California Coastal Commission on Thursday approved a permit that will allow San Francisco to close a section of the Great Highway to car traffic permanently. The permit allows the city to close ...
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Trial Courts Sued, Accused of Hampering Domestic Violence Survivors’ Ability to Appeal Rulings
Two organizations in the Bay Area that ensure the well-being of low-income survivors of domestic violence have sued four trial courts to resolve the statewide court reporter shortage, which they say ...