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<![CDATA[San Jose's Downtown Ice slides back in for another year of gliding and falling]]>
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<![CDATA[Even in the depths of the recession, Downtown Ice, San Jose's annual skating rink, attracted a record 43,000 skaters last year. The San Jose Downtown Association hopes to set another record this season.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@mercurynews.com (<p class="bylinejb">By Mike Swift<br /></p><p class="bylineaffiliation"><a href='mailto:mswift@mercurynews.com'>mswift@mercurynews.com</a>)]]>
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<![CDATA[Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:10:02 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[San Jose differs from other police in response to mental disturbances]]>
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<![CDATA[While some police agencies immediately send specially trained officers to calls that involve the mentally ill, San Jose has no automatic trigger. However, San Jose police insist that calling for such expert backup wouldn't have changed the outcome when two officers shot Daniel Pham after he threatened them with a knife.]]>
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<![CDATA[lernandez@mercurynews.com (<p class="bylinejb">By Lisa Fernandez<br /></p><p class="bylineaffiliation"><a href='mailto:lfernandez@mercurynews.com'>lfernandez@mercurynews.com</a>)]]>
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<![CDATA[Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:31:25 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Atherton attorney killed in Watsonville plane crash]]>
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<![CDATA[Gary Lampert, 58, died when his single-engine airplane plunged into an apple orchard in Watsonville on Saturday afternoon.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@mercurynews.com (<p class="bylineaffiliation">By J.M. Brown<br /></p><a href='mailto:jbrown@santacruzsentinel.com'>jbrown@santacruzsentinel.com</a>)]]>
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<![CDATA[Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:12:00 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Suicide survivors gather to console each other in Palo Alto]]>
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<![CDATA[Palo Alto was chosen by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention for one of its survivor gatherings because of a cluster of deaths that have occurred along the Caltrain tracks there over the past seven months, a so-called 'hot spot' where four Gunn High School students took their own lives.]]>
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<![CDATA[bnewman@mercurynews.com (<p class="bylinejb">By Bruce Newman<br /></p><p class="bylineaffiliation"><a href='mailto:bnewman@mercurynews.com'>bnewman@mercurynews.com</a>)]]>
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<![CDATA[Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:56:49 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Herhold: The purgatory of San Jose Police Chief Rob Davis]]>
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<![CDATA[sherhold@mercurynews.com (<p class="bylinejb">By Scott Herhold<br /></p><p class="bylineaffiliation">Mercury News Columnist)]]>
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<![CDATA[Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:48:56 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[New South County Courthouse haunted by myriad post-construction maladies]]>
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<![CDATA[The cloying odor of raw sewage. Flooding that turned the parking lot into a wading pool. A back staff door that refused to shut properly, forcing a sheriff's deputy to guard it. Eight months after Santa Clara County's newest courthouse complex opened in Morgan Hill, those three glitches and a number of others have employees spooked.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@mercurynews.com (<p class="bylinejb">By Tracey Kaplan<br /></p><p class="bylineaffiliation"><a href='mailto:tkaplan@mercurynews.com'>tkaplan@mercurynews.com</a>)]]>
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<![CDATA[Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:48:53 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Roadshow: Red-light runners seen everywhere]]>
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<![CDATA[Use of cameras spreads in attempt to curb a leading cause of crashes.]]>
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<![CDATA[grichards@mercurynews.com (<p class="bylinejb">By Gary Richards<br /></p><p class="bylineaffiliation"><a href='mailto:grichards@mercurynews.com'>grichards@mercurynews.com</a>)]]>
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<![CDATA[Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:41:43 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Internal Affairs: Introducing the little-known city of San Jose]]>
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<![CDATA[PR firm hired on taxpayer dime to raise S.J.'s profile beyond the Bay Area astutely pitches to Bay Area newspapers.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@mercurynews.com (<p class="Byline">By the Mercury News)]]>
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<![CDATA[Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:50:37 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[In Hindsight: A hot Silicon Valley IPO and higher home prices]]>
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<![CDATA[Silicon Valley home prices are higher year-over-year for the first time in nearly two years. Fortinet stock soars in its Nasdaq debut. Plus: Unemployment rises to 11.9 percent in Silicon Valley. Twitter will drop its suggested users list. Applied Materials offers to buy Semitool.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@mercurynews.com (<p class="bylinejb">By Frank Michael Russell<br /></p><p class="bylineaffiliation"><a href='mailto:frussell@mercurynews.com'>frussell@mercurynews.com</a>)]]>
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<![CDATA[Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:29:35 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Boy's arm bone replaced in medical first at Stanford's Lucile Packard]]>
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<![CDATA[Four-year-old Mark Blinder was diagnosed last year with Ewing's Sarcoma. His parents opted for an untried approach: replacing his entire bone with a prosthesis that can be extended to grow along with him.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@mercurynews.com (<p class="bylinejb">By Diana Samuels<br /></p><p class="bylineaffiliation">Daily News Staff Writer)]]>
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<![CDATA[Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:59:41 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Man shot on Bayfront Expressway in Menlo Park]]>
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<![CDATA[A man was shot while driving through Menlo Park on Friday night, according to police.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@mercurynews.com (<p class="Byline">Bay City News Service</p>)]]>
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<![CDATA[Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:46:15 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[In Gilroy, troubled young Latinas in therapy embrace ancient Mexican wisdom]]>
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<![CDATA[A special program Gilroy introduces ancient Mexican thought in therapy for girls whose troubles stem from trauma, abuse and chronic depression.]]>
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<![CDATA[jrodriguez@mercurynews.com (<p class="bylinejb">By Joe Rodriguez<br /></p><p class="bylineaffiliation">Mercury News Columnist)]]>
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<![CDATA[Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:32:39 -0700]]>
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