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DISTRICT HDQTRS. — Local school officials are optimistic incoming freshmen will be better able to face each other and the future after taking a one-year seminar designed to explore history’s struggles. Santa Monica High School teachers unveiled on Thursday their “Facing History and
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Even though India now has 80,000 licensed dentists, nearly 100 “street dentists” continue to operate in dusty, open-air “offices,” performing extractions and “fitting” used dentures for, typically, 1 percent to 2 percent of what a licensed dentist would charge. One patient of practitioner Mahender Singh, observed for a June dispatch from Jaipur in The New York Times, was “spitting streams of blood into the gutter” after removal of an incisor that, said Singh, “was not working right” and “kept turning left and right when he ate.” Singh uses anesthetic but said some patients still pass out from the pain.
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PUBLIC SAFETY BLDG. — With the devastating effects still being realized by Hurricane Katrina — the worst disaster in U.S. history — the fourth anniversary of the worst attack on this country’s soil
Today is the 253rd day of 2005. There are 112 days left in the year. Fifty years ago, on Sept. 10, 1955, the long-running TV Western series “Gunsmoke,” starring James Arness as Marshal Matt Dillon, premiered on CBS television.
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Guns, drugs and money found in Pico Gang-related shoot-out, drug bust keep police on their toes By Daily Press staff
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PICO NEIGHBORHOOD — Police were busy in this neighborhood late Thursday and early Friday as they responded to a gang-related shooting and a SWAT team forced their way into an apartment where they found drugs, guns and cash.
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may be forgotten by many Americans this weekend. But Jim Inge, a Santa Monica Fire Department engineer, hopes a memorial of the Sept. 11 attacks that he helped create will etch into people’s minds what thousands of people sacrificed four years ago Sunday. “People are already starting to forget,” he said. “They should never forget this.” A piece of steel from the north tower of the World Trade Center will live on the second floor of the See MEMORIAL, page 14
Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press A firefighter trains at the city yards with the American Flag serving as the backdrop.
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A piece of the World Trade Center memorialized in SM
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Ourselves” curriculum before the district’s board of education. All incoming Samohi freshmen are required to take the course starting this fall, in which they will analyze the Holocaust, the American eugenics movement, the 1992 Los Angeles race riots and other case studies in social conflict. The purpose of the freshman seminar is to develop concepts of
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No one was injured in the shooting and two Santa Monica residents were arrested in the drug bust. On Thursday, at 11:11 p.m., Santa Monica Police responded to the area of 20th Street and Pico Boulevard after someone reported shots being fired. While responding to the call, an officer was See PICO, page 9
Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press Santa Monica Fire engineer Jim Inge helped bring a piece of the World Trade Center to Santa Monica that’s been turned into a memorial of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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Four years ago Sunday thousands of people perished in New York, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania as a result of the terrorist attacks. Two of those victims were Santa Monicans. Although there are no scheduled events planned in Santa Monica to remember the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, See VICTIMS, page 17
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