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Single-occupancy car trips remain the "preferred mode" of transportation for Palo Alto residents who commute to work, as well as for non-residents who commute into the city for work each day.

It is unlikely that Buckingham Palace often holds speed dating evenings, but a host of young people were there this week to find potential new partners.

A Camp Kesem counselor shares a laugh with a camper at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md.

A slight rise in pitch at the end of a sentence may be the most defining characteristic of a Valley girl, referring to the stereotypical ditzy, young, well-to-do, white women from the San Fernando Valley in southern California.

Menlo Park attorney John Martin grew up in San Mateo, but every morning during middle and high school, he got off the train at the Menlo station to catch a shuttle out to Woodside Priory.

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From the Yale Cardiovascular Research Center, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT ; Department of Life Systems, Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, Korea ; and Department of Medicine, Stanford University, School of Medicine, CA .

Diabetes is America's No. 7 cause of death, killing 71,000 annually, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.

For all its hype as a potential panacea for companies everywhere, Big Data isn't necessarily useful data.

Researchers identified a small region of the central brain that may be responsible for human determination in the face of serious challenges.

Cellist Maya Beiser. The Israeli musician performs in "Linked Verse," a fusion of sound and image that blends Japanese and Western styles of music.

Higher education has long been touted as a way out of poverty, but that only works if poor students enroll in quality universities.

Orgenesis, Inc. , a development-stage company with a novel regenerative medicine technology that converts a diabetes patient's liver cells into functioning insulin-producing cells, has been invited to present at the 2013 World Stem Cell Summit on Wednesday, December 4, 2013 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego.

A single layer of tin: If used as wiring in computer chips, the material, called "stanene," could increase the speed and lower the power needs of future generations of computers.

From TechDirt.com Case Over No-Fly List Takes Bizarre Turn As Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So from the shameless dept As you my have heard, there's a trial going on here in San Francisco about the legality of the complete lack of any sort of due process concerning the US's "no fly" list.

Some in the press have inquired about the November 2010 letter urging the Federal Reserve not to undertake a second round of quantitative easing.

A former political consultant to the millionaire businesswoman who unsuccessfully ran for the presidency of Madagascar is suing the Belmont resident over more than $165,000 in unpaid bills.

Don't go calling California's 2016 GOP presidential primary or general election for Chris Christie just yet, but a new Field Poll finds the Golden State's voters like him better than four other potential Republican candidates.

QI can remember back to grade school when I was scared to death of math. In high school, I took the minimum number of math classes.

Gynecologist Dr. Leah Millheiser talks with a new patient at Stanford in Palo Alto, California, on Wednesday, November 13, 2013.