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This coming week is the celebration of Cinco de Mayo and La Semana de la Raza, an event annually sponsored by CHE (Chicanos in Health Education) here at UCSF. Someone new to UCSF might reasonably ask, ...

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How do you say goodbye to a place with countless memories carved on its every corner. Those were the simple days. The innocent days. The almost-worry-free days. The habit burger late night runs. The ...

Originally published in Synapse on April 29, 1997. There is nothing like springtime and nowhere like San Francisco to experience it. From my vantage point I watch the fog quietly and gently slip away, ...