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Updated: August 07, 2008
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Classes on nuts, volts of solar trade filling up
STILL, BOOMING INDUSTRY SHORT ON QUALIFIED ENTRY-LEVEL EMPLOYEES
Hoping to capitalize on an industry desperate for trained workers, students are flocking to places like San Jose City College to learn a new trade in the up-and-coming solar-energy field. 
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The number of whites in the South Bay has dropped in the last decade, according to census data released today. That trend, combined with a continued surge in Asian population, leaves whites, Asians and Hispanics more evenly balanced here than anywhere else in America.  
 
 
BEIJING - For the second time in 10 days, Stanford graduate David Durante has felt the rise of hope only to be overcome with disappointment.  
 
 
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A man in a Chevy pickup truck registered in San Jose intentionally drove off the east side of the Santa Cruz municipal wharf early this morning and had to be rescued, fire officials reported.  
 
 

 
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France salutes a hero of Normandy
Like many in his generation, Bob Kenyon buried the memories of his World War II experience for years. The Menlo Park man shared only the basics with his wife and son: that he was among the first soldiers to storm Utah Beach during the Normandy invasion.  

 
 
Killion: Questions and doubts in the Beijing air
But the Olympic hosts are finding it a tad more difficult to control the air quality. The Chinese are learning you can't dictate to Mother Nature. 

 
 
Classes on nuts, volts of solar trade filling up
Hoping to capitalize on an industry desperate for trained workers, students are flocking to places like San Jose City College to learn a new trade in the up-and-coming solar-energy field. 

 
 
Lawyer: Post-Katrina caretaker arrested in Texas
HOUSTON—A lawyer for a Texas woman accused of kidnapping five children she helped care for after Hurricane Katrina says she has been arrested. Full Story

 
Police: NYC club worker confessed to killing woman
Police say an employee of a New York City club has confessed to killing a woman whose body was found there days after she visited the club during a party for rapper Lil' Kim. 

 
Live Nation posts a 2Q slim profit
LOS ANGELES—Concert company Live Nation Inc. says its net profit in the second quarter shrank 88 percent to $1. Full Story

 
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Cell phones on planes irk most older passengers, but the young tend to favor them
Generation gap at 60,000 feet: Knee-scrunching seats, pillows you have to pay for and trying to satisfy your hunger with one of those measly bags of pretzels aren't the only things many airline passengers hate. 

 



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