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The article discusses efforts by the city of San Francisco, California to eradicate Human immunodeficiency virus/Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) within the city. Topics discussed include the efforts of the Rapid Antiretroviral Program Initiative for new Diagnoses (RAPID) program, the immediate use of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs on diagnosis, and improvements in the quality of life of HIV/AIDS sufferers.

The article narrates Patricia Hearst's nightmare about the bank robbery in San Francisco, California. It reveals that the bank robbery has dropped a few clues into the hands of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents, who had been frustrated by lack of information about the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) and its members. It also notes that the surreal scene, captured on film by Hibernia Bank's automatic cameras, was the SLA's way of introducing Patricia Hearst to the world in their role for her as an armed terrorist.

The article reports on the opposition of "San Francisco Chronicle" editor Scott Newhall on the new tax system of the city government on companies, mandating them to pay for taxes based on their gross receipts, in San Francisco, California. He claimed that tax is a license and a jurisdictional regulation of the press prohibited by both the country and the state's Constitution. He opposed to the new mandate not only on behalf of the periodical but as owner of a small suburban newspaper "Signal."

The article offers information on a conference held at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco, California. The scientists gathered at the meeting discussed psychotropic drugs that are still known only to primitive peoples and extend to the East Indies from the Andes across Polynesia. Some of the substances examined include epena, ayahuasca and mushroom fly agaric.

This article features the growth of shipping company Pacific Far East Lines in the U.S. Pacific Far East becomes the largest U.S. flag line on routes from Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, to the Far East. Pacific Far East owners appointed Thomas E. Cuffe to manage the company. In eight years of operation, the company was able to acquire additional ships and post increased profits.

The article focuses on a study conducted by the doctors at the University of California wherein estrogen and sodium fluoride are found to be effective for the treatment and prevention of osteoporosis. It mentions that estrogen helps in regulating the rate of the process of resorption while sodium fluoride helps in stimulating bone forming cells that produces new bone . It also states that results of the study show that sodium fluoride does not repair resorption balance.

The article focuses on a research made by scientists from the University of California in San Francisco on the use of Escherichia coli to make somatostatin, a hormone which promotes growth in humans. Dr. Philip Handler, president of the National Academy of Sciences, called it a scientific triumph and presented the research at the Senate hearings. The use of the scientists' recombinant DNA technique required only 2 gallon of bacterial culture to obtain 5 miligram of somatostatin.

The article profiles Thomas Edison Miyawaki who applied for a teaching assistanceship at the University of California's San Francisco Medical Center. It states that California gave him the assistanceship, along with a salary of 304 U.S. dollars a month, because of his very excellent record. However, he failed when he took for an oral qualifying examination for his promotion that made Medical Center officials got suspicious and found out that Miyawaki was not a doctor.

The article focuses on a variety of intellectual radio programs being aired by the KPFA-FM, a listeners-supported radio station in San Francisco, California. It states that KPFA-FM broadcasts radio programs such as a book review by poet Kenneth Rexroth and a discussion of D. H. Lawrence's art by critic Hubert Crehan. It notes that Louis Hill and colleagues established the KPFA in 1949 by raising money which would be backed by listeners instead of commercials.