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The allegory that is 'Animal Farm' examines the perils of unchecked power and privilege, the use of words as a political weapon, and revolutions that erode into regimes not unlike those they overthrew.

UCSB theater students take on Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm,’ a fable that still bites

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Mapping Lyme Disease Out West

Mission-Critical Teamwork

Fuel for Thought

A Changing Sea Floor

A Better Model for Type 2 Diabetes

Insight and Influence

Gallery ‘Game Day’
Jill Beale standing in front of garden

What Water Wants

Where Songs Begin
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Greed Plus Corruption Equals Hilarity

We Are the World

Homage to the Writer
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