Krisztina Holly, vice provost for innovation at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, is doing her best to turn her share of that investment into successful businesses.

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Until recently, they were part of the Schoenberg Institute at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, the city in which the composer spent the later part of his life and where he died in 1951.

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"There's no question that China is very sensitive to its image, " said Stanley Rosen, an expert on the Chinese film industry, and director of the East Asian Studies Center at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

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Thomas Jordan, an Earth scientist at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, who chaired an international review of earthquake forecasting in Italy in the wake of L'Aquila's quake, says that these calculations must be put into context.

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Sanchez, a third generation Mexican American, already has a massive fan base from his time in Los Angeles playing for the University of Southern California.

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In the US study, researchers from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and colleagues identified 392 pairs of twins where one or both had Alzheimer's from the Swedish Twin Registry.

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In one incident in April last year, two University of Southern California graduate students from China were shot dead while sitting in a parked car on a Los Angeles street in what police described as a bungled carjacking.

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One of the most widely publicized incidents occurred in April last year, when two University of Southern California graduate students from China were shot dead while sitting in a parked car on a Los Angeles street in what police described as a bungled carjacking.

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FuelCell Energy also installed a 1MW unit at California State University, Northridge, in 2007 in partnership with Southern California Gas Company and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

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