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Bharatanatyam dancer Rasika Kumar.
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Computer class gives Vietnamese orphans a window to the world.
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The Vasquez family take the first step to rebuild their San Bruno home.
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Eric Lambert spreads the art of Japanese swordsmanship.
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Passionate about their sport, these Lady Sharks are devoted athletes who live for the thrills on the ice.
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Celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month through old and new dance styles. Please press play.
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Arturo Vasquez revisits his destroyed home in San Bruno a month after the massive pipeline blast.
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As the nation debates illegal immigration in the abstract, a Bay Area family lives the raw anguish of deportation and the intense fight to stay together. This is their story.
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The day that Ella Cho was born her parents were advised to start making funeral arrangements.
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Adam Herbel, Silicon Valley’s “Dancing Cowboy,” teaches Country line dancing at various venues in the Bay Area. [VIDEO]
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Life in a year: Part 6
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Haitham Jasim and his wife, Jamila Ghanm, arrived in San Jose from Iraq in July. This is their story. (more…)

Images of 2008 from the staff photographers of the San Jose Mercury News. (more…)

[VIDEO] Despite India’s explosive economic growth, extreme poverty is still a daily reality for millions.
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Homeowners describe the process of recovering from last June’s devastating Trabing Fire.
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The Foundation for Excellence, a Silicon Valley non-profit, provides scholarships to brilliant students who are among India’s vast poor. (more…)