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Choosing Between Being a Parent and Being a Child

The president won the peace prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. The choice shocked Nobel observers because Obama took office less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline.

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The McDonald Center is one of San Diego's most successful and enduring drug and alcohol treatment centers, but construction plans to bring the Scripps La Jolla Hospital up to earthquake code could spell its demise. That has brought a strong reaction from the woman whose name the center bears.

Among those blamed by the government for ethnic violence in China's far west is Uighur economist Ilham Tohti. He says the government accepts many of his suggestions on ethnic policy, but still doesn't trust him. He has been arrested four times, though never charged with a crime.

As an arts and culture producer, a lot of stuff crosses my desk. I can't fit it all into the confines of a

There's fierce competition for your vote in the San Diego city attorney's race. Four people are challenging incumbent Mike Aguirre, and they all agree on one thing: They really don't like Mike Aguirre

When home foreclosures go up, scam artists come out of the woodwork. Scammers' latest trick is telling homeowners that they're here to "save" the home, but their goal is to strip the home of its equity.

California, Arizona, and Massachusetts have all replaced bilingual education with an English immersion model. This was supposed to help close the achievement gap. But by most measures, it hasn't. In the finale of our series, we follow one student through five years of English-only classes and find that she's still struggling to communicate, in any language.

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