As a result, L.A. averted a second set of riots.

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Of course, L.A. is much larger than Palo Alto with a larger set of problems to solve.

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That race will debut a new set of rules by the race organizers, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest, and it will see many of the world's great car makers competing with advanced hybrid prototype sports cars.

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Kathleen L. McGinn, the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, established a set of field studies in which female second-years researched the reasons behind differing academic performances between male and female students.

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He directed set designer Jeannine Oppewall ("L.A. Confidential") to create the town of Pleasantville, blank library books and all, from her memory of the late 1950s, rather than from extensive research.

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L.A. But what counts as significant in a statistical analysis is a function of where you set the bar.

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