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California in a Warming World

Earth scientist Lisa Sloan and her students have developed a computer model that is beginning to generate detailed--and ominous--scenarios of what California's climate could look like by the middle of this century.

Photo: R. R. Jones

Lessons of love

A new book by sociologist Marcia Millman finds a stronger-than-suspected connection between real-life love stories and the romantic plots that have been replayed in films from Casablanca to Titanic.

Photo: Kathleen Lynch

Champion of the Humanities

UCSC's new dean of humanities, Wlad Godzich, charts the half-century decline of humanities scholarship in this country's university curriculum--and makes a forceful case for reversing that trend.

Photo: R. R. Jones

Standing up for Workers

Watching people lose their jobs to trade, technology, and downsizing prompted economist Lori Kletzer and a colleague to design a "wage insurance" proposal that has attracted support from government policy makers.

Photo: Michael Di Bari