By AL SARACEVIC, San Francisco Chronicle

Sports world's sex-abuse cases yield painful lessons

Like the Catholic Church before it, the sports world is facing its darkest winter. Questions abound regarding some of its most trusted institutions and the people who run them. Ideally, the answers that emerge can give us a new understanding of sexual abuse and arm us in the fight against it.

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Unique university intends to solve world's problems

A new university is sprouting up in the San Francisco area this summer with an ambitious charter: solving the world's biggest problems.
Singularity University, which will be housed on the NASA Ames base near Mountain View and begin classes in June, is the brainchild of Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis.

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