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Opinion

Are You Ready for Precision Medicine?

Written by: Kui Jia Can you imagine a day where people can receive personalized drugs and medical treatment tailored to their individual patient information such as genetic content, sex, ages, and even their own lifestyle history? Well, this is the concept of …

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Community College: The Smart Way to Go

Previously published in The Saratoga Falcon Written by: Leena Elzeiny   Any University of California school costs about $30,000 per year with room and board. And that cost is an insignificant mosquito compared to the elephant prices of Ivy League schools. Yet …

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Mistakes as Lessons

By: Allison Jia My first ever Chinese-style chiffon cake was a nightmare. I, a self-confident third grader, had marched into the kitchen, absolutely convinced that I had an undiscovered talent for baking and determined to make the finest cake my mother had …

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Body Image

By Angela Jia Body image has always been a real problem. In the 1820’s, women in the United States wore whalebone corsets to squeeze their waists in an effort to look “prettier.” Society causes the problem of body image since it promotes …

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The Truth About Nanking Massacre

By: Jenny Wang The Nanking Massacre was one of the most horrifying events that happened in Chinese history. We cannot go back to 1937 to prevent the event from happening; we can, however, remember it, know its truth, and learn from it …

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No Right or Wrong in Family

By Wan Shui People sometimes wonder, what’s a happy family? In a happy family people do not argue right or wrong. Many people like to blame family conflicts on trivial things and argue over who is right or wrong.  There is a …

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Community College: The Smart Way To Go

By: Leena Elzeiny Any University of California school costs about $30,000 per year with room and board. And that cost is an insignificant mosquito compared to the elephant price of Ivy League schools. Most people accept that they can pay $200,000 to …

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Taking Care of Our Own Bodies

By: Yulin Liang We live in a very busy world where everyone seems to be busy working towards achieving goals often from fear of other people’s judgement than from our own motivation or enjoyment. We are told that life is to challenge …

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Laziness vs. Creativity

By: Kui Jia Have you ever been frustrated by the lack of creativity in your science or art projects? Do you consider yourself “as lazy as a lizard” or “an industrious bee”? While your parents or teachers may tell you many times that …

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Benefits of Being a Consultant

By: Junfang Liu People may have certain preconceptions about a consultant: when a company plans to lay off people but does not dare tell its employees directly, they hire a consultant to be the messenger.   This might be a cartoon image of …

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