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[Second place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest for nonfiction.] Art always seems to portray madness so romantically. But the...
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[Originally published in Synapse on October 3, 1977.] For the past decade, vitamin C has been touted for the cure...
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[First place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] The morning of October 17, the soft blue light of...
This Date in UCSF History: Student-Teachers Demand Full Employee Rights
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[Originally published in Synapse on September 22, 1988.] Our colleges and universities have come under highly critical consideration of late...
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