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Four adults in farmers clothes, their faces lit, look up at a foreboding figure in a mask
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Jeff Liang
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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Fellows of Distinction

Quantum Zeta Epiphany

Genetic Strategy Reverses Insecticide Resistance

Meeting the Moment
Elephants and impalas drink from a basin

Sharing More Than Water

Outwitting Omicron
Broken cattle bones found in Indigenous housing in Mission Santa Clara

The Bones of a Culture

Versatility and Selectivity

Sending Life to the Stars

Animals and the Big C

On Screen and on Stage
The skeleton of a Bronze Age Briton found in Kent

The People of the Realm
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