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Destroyed Records, Dying Witnesses Consign San Francisco Radiation Lab to Obscurity
Military scientists shredded millions of pages, impeding acknowledgement of the history of human radiation experiments.
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Hostility Plagues LGBTQ Latin American Immigrants Seeking Addiction Recovery Support
Scores of LGBTQ refugees come to San Francisco to escape threats in Latin American countries that have weak protections for ...
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Trial Courts Sued, Accused of Hampering Domestic Violence Survivors’ Ability to Appeal Rulings
California courts are being sued over failure to address a court reporter shortage that has persisted a decade.
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SF Fails to Produce Evidence It Follows Encampment Clearing Policy
The city can’t prove it’s following a policy requiring staff to advise homeless people to separate essential items during encampment sweeps.
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State Commission Gives Green Light to Close SF’s Great Highway to Cars
The California Coastal Commission on Thursday approved a permit that will allow San Francisco to close a section of the Great Highway to car traffic permanently. The permit allows the city to close ...
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Cold War Scientists Pushed Ethical Boundaries With Radiation Experiments
The success of the atomic bomb program deeply unnerved some of the scientists responsible. Manhattan Project leader J. Robert Oppenheimer’s later qualms are well known. But even before the first ...
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Human Radiation Studies Included Mock Combat, Skin Tests and a Plan to Inject 49ers
In early 1955, San Francisco 49ers management agreed to make its players guinea pigs in a radiation experiment, according to a series of letters hashing out the “completed arrangements” between the ...