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This Date in UCSF History: New ‘Security’ Laws Opposed
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[Originally published in Synapse on October 22, 1981.] Nearly a year after the conservative Heritage Foundation called for a renewed...
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K the Martian
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[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest's fiction category.] There was once a small Martian called K who was...
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Being an OB-GYN, I imagine, is a lot like playing center midfield.
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