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Turning Bikes into Wheelchairs for Some of the World's Neediest Peoplenew

Some students and recent graduates of Caltech and the Art Center College of Design have found a way to turn simple mountain bikes into inexpensive, effective and potentially lifesaving wheelchairs for disabled people in the world's poorest countries.

Pasadena Weekly | Joe Piasecki | 07-08-2008 | Education

Tags: Education, bicycles, design, international, Caltech, wheelchairs, Intelligent Mobility International, product design, the Art Center College of Design

Earthquake Experts Say There is a Way to Survive 'The Big One'new

November's Great Southern California ShakeOut -- the largest earthquake drill in U.S. history -- aims to find out how many lives and how much property can be saved through quake training and preparedness.

Pasadena Weekly | Jana Monji and Nathan Solis | 06-17-2008 | Disasters

Tags: California, earthquakes, disasters, Great Southern California ShakeOut

Hate Speech Infests SoCal Daily Newspaper Websitesnew

Due to the anonymity and instant access to an audience that poorly monitored newspaper and social networking sites provide, internet hate speech is a growing national phenomenon. "It's democracy gone wild," said Deborah Lauter, director of the national civil rights division of the Anti-Defamation League.

Pasadena Weekly | Staff | 06-17-2008 | Media

Tags: media, censorship, MediaNews, Anti-Defamation League, web culture, commenting, hate speech, Los Angeles Daily News, Pasadena Star-News

Pasadena Schools Face Alarming Growth in Violent Racial and Girl-on-Girl Incidentsnew

The expulsion of four elementary school students for bringing knives onto campus and a rise in violence involving female African-American students have left city and school officials scrambling for solutions.

Pasadena Weekly | Andre Coleman | 05-20-2008 | Crime & Justice

Tags: Education, race relations, crime & justice, Pasadena, school violence

Chinese Americans Reach into Their Pockets To Help Quake Victimsnew

The Committee of 100, a national group of influential Chinese-American leaders, is calling for donations to aide the victims of Monday's disastrous earthquake in China.

Pasadena Weekly | Joe Piasecki | 05-20-2008 | Disasters

Tags: China, earthquake, disasters, aid

A Pasadena Family Turns its Backyard into an Urban Homesteadnew

Melting ice caps, unchecked global oil consumption, mind-boggling volumes of trash accumulating in landfills -- the problems facing our planet are so big, it's tempting to tune them out. But when you talk to the Dervaes family, the founders of a home-based sustainable living resource center in Pasadena called Path to Freedom, it's the smallness of things you walk away thinking about.

Pasadena Weekly | April Caires | 04-28-2008 | Environment

Tags: food, farming, environment, self-sufficiency, urban homesteading

"Uncovering Project Censored," "And Now the News," "Dead Men Do Tell Tales"new

AltWeeklies Award - Media Reporting

Pasadena Weekly | Kevin Uhrich | 04-21-2008 | Media

Tags: media

"Throwaway Kids," "Family Business, "No Place Like Home," "In Search of Brian," "Now What?" "A Long Way From Home"new

AltWeeklies Award - Feature Story

Pasadena Weekly | Joe Piasecki | 04-21-2008 | Media

Tags: media

It Ain't Easy Being a Pit Bull in Pasadenanew

Critics rip a proposed city ordinance that would force neutering of pit bulls.

Pasadena Weekly | Andre Coleman | 04-15-2008 | Animal Issues

Tags: animal issues, animal population control, animal shelters, forced neutering, pit bulls

Sexism: 'The Problem with No Name' Rears its Headnew

Hillary Clinton is being told to step aside so Obama can take his rightful place as the Democratic candidate. Excuse me? We can run for office, but we can't fight like hell or even win?

Pasadena Weekly | Ellen Snortland | 04-07-2008 | The War on Women

Tags: 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, sexism, women's issues