The Golden Gate Bridge's fatal flaw

San Francisco's famed bridge is a public health hazard; it needs adequate barriers to stop suicides.

As San Francisco hosts a citywide birthday party for the Golden Gate Bridge's 75th anniversary, one thing that won't be celebrated is the fact that the bridge continues to be the world's top suicide site. Since it opened on May 27, 1937, there have been an estimated 1,600 deaths in which the body was recovered, and many more unconfirmed.

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L.A. Unified can apply for federal Race to the Top funds

For the first time, the U.S. Department of Education will let districts bypass state officials. L.A. Unified wants funds to alter the teacher evaluation process.

For the first time, L.A. Unified and other individual school districts can apply for federal Race to the Top grants, bypassing California officials, including the governor, who had objected to the rules for receiving the education-reform incentives.

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Paris Hilton has taken Cannes by storm

So, Paris Hilton went to Cannes, and she spun and twirled and posed on the sidewalk while some twink yelled her name so everyone would look at them as he pretended to be a photographer, even though it looks like he’s never actually seen a camera before and has no idea what it does, [...]

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TV review: 'Hemingway & Gellhorn's' third-rate romance

Although based on research, with dialogue that scavenges Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn's writings, this HBO biopic is never quite believable.

HBO's two-for-one biopic "Hemingway & Gellhorn," which would more appropriately reverse the order of those names, dramatizes the stormy coming together and falling apart of the famous novelist and his third wife, war correspondent Martha Gellhorn. The film, which premieres Monday, is a big-name affair, with Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman in the leads and Philip Kaufman directing a screenplay by Barbara Turner ("Pollock") and Jerry Stahl ("Bad Boys II").

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Sonos Poaches RIM?s Head of Global Sales

The 14-year RIM veteran becomes chief commercial officer of the wireless multi-room music system maker.

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Keep Out: NASA Asks Future Moon Visitors to Respect Its Stuff

NASA has released a set of guidelines that encourage future lunar landers to remain a respectful distance from its historic artifacts, such as the Apollo landing sites.

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Smartphone

If your device is having difficulty completing tasks like file downloading, it's a dead giveaway that it needs some maintenance. We're used to the idea of spending a bit of time running hard disk defragmentation, spyware scans and other tools on our PCs, but we may not be so au fait with what's needed on the limited-memory phones and PC-substituting tablets we're using daily.

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