... soon in Fresno. The train will be built to travel two-hundred miles per hour, from Los Angeles to San Francisco. It should take as little as three hours to get from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Ever since the project of the construction of the high-speed rail was brought up over six years ago, ... or public high-speed rail. Also, It would be very hard for the government to claim land owned by others. Most of the lands in the San Joaquin Valley are farmlands, and farmers own the land. The basic necessity for the high-speed rail is acquiring land, and that is through eminent domain...

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... most devastating epidemics in the United State's history. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first recognized as a new disease in the United States when doctors in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco began to notice a recurrent diagnosis of Pneumoncystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) and Karposi's sarcoma (KS) in young male homosexuals (Shilts pg. 60). This was suspicious at the time because both ... 's there was the beginning of gay uprising. Finally homosexual were starting to come out and live their lives and demand respect. The uprisings were the largest in New York , San F...

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... up. A hundred new communities with 500,000 homesites were established (Dumke). Expansion of rail service in California had one result that was never anticipated by the businessmen and politicians of San Francisco and Sacramento who worked so hard for the transcontinental link; Northern California lost its monopoly on the state's population and wealth. Without a rail link, Los Angeles, the first city of ... estate development collapsed in 1889, and many disappointed new Californians went home (Rice). Still, the 1890 census showed that the population of Los Angeles and San Diego had quadr...

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... studied theory and harmony. But he was dropped out again and joined the army again in 1950. The he became a member of the sixth army band at the Presidio in San Francisco. At this point in his life Baker was into Jazz music. He became a huge fan of Miles Davis and soon he was into the popular jazz clubs in the city ... of San Francisco. Afterwards, he had a major breakthrough in his career when he was chosen by one of the great saxophonist, Charlie Parker in 1952 to perform in a series of West Coast engagements ... ...

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... it was only so that she could live. As time progressed Patty was treated more like a member and given her revolutionary name, Tania. On April 15, the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco was robbed by the SLA. This was the first crime that Patty committed with the SLA. Security cameras captured the robbery with audio from Patty saying "This Tania Patricia Hearst ... FBI. After the fire, Patty was on the run for about sixteen months that was deemed "the missing year " before she was found and arrested on September 18, 1975, in San Francisco. The story of Patty Hearst is incredibly intriguing a...

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... drugs. Brothels are the answer to make prostitution work, legally. People have to realize that regardless of any legislation passed criminalizing prostitution it is not just going to disappear. In San Francisco, illegal prostitution is a huge underlying problem for the authorities. Many of the officers believe prostitution should be officially and lawfully recognized. Their reasoning behind this belief is that the women ... are far less drug problems and the police will not have the constant burden of arresting females who are going to continue what they are doing, regardless of police ...

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... . The system is slow and complex and that is the primary reason why people do not use public transportation as much as in other cities such as New York or San Francisco. The Metro subway is in the primary web of fast and efficient rail transportation in Los Angeles. A visit to the Metro website at "metro.net" shows a diagram of ... ...

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The Locavore movement began in San Francisco when four women decided to promote a theory in which eating foods that were only grown or produced within a 100 mile radius would create a sustainable food system within the city. In ... ...

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