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src="https://web.archive.org/web/20081021033446im_/http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2008/10/19_t/ba-rail20_transb_0499117331_t.gif" alt="Attitude Adjusting Needed On High-Speed Rail"/></a> <div class="desc"> <p> For such a system to work -- as it does in Europe and Asia -- Californians will have to accept living in denser cities and more public transportation, experts say. <span class="byline">Michael Cabanatuan</span> </p> <ul class="multimedia"> <li><a href="/web/20081021033446/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2008/10/20/BA5N13IO71.DTL&o=0"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20081021033446im_/http://imgs.sfgate.com/graphics/utils/mmicon_photo.gif" alt="Photos"/> Photos</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="item clearfix"> <h2><a href="/web/20081021033446/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/20/MN9D13L50C.DTL">S.F. School Trustees Offer JROTC Alternative</a></h2> <div> <p> A majority of San Francisco school board members today pitched a replacement for the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps, calling for an emergency response training course that would offer leadership training for the district's students without the military overtones. leadership training for... <span class="byline">Jill Tucker</span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="item clearfix"> <h2><a href="/web/20081021033446/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/20/BA6013L2G6.DTL">Bonds' Lawyers Heading Back To Court</a></h2> <a href="/web/20081021033446/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/20/BA6013L2G6.DTL"><img class="thumb" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20081021033446im_/http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2008/10/19_t/ba-m_r20_bondsmu_0499314479_t.gif" alt="Bonds' Lawyers Heading Back To Court"/></a> <div class="desc"> <p> Matier and Ross are told ex-Giant's legal team will try again to persuade federal judge to pare back slugger's 15-count indictment for allegedly lying to the grand jury probing baseball's steroids scandal. </p> <ul class="multimedia"> <li><a href="/web/20081021033446/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2008/10/20/BA6013L2G6.DTL&o=0"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20081021033446im_/http://imgs.sfgate.com/graphics/utils/mmicon_photo.gif" alt="Photos"/> Photos</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="item clearfix"> <h2><a href="/web/20081021033446/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/19/MN6D13JN34.DTL">Family Couldn't Shield Girl From Harm</a></h2> <a href="/web/20081021033446/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/19/MN6D13JN34.DTL"><img class="thumb" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20081021033446im_/http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2008/10/19_t/mn-jonisha22_ph_0499319701_t.gif" alt="Family Couldn't Shield Girl From Harm"/></a> <div class="desc"> <p> Police say the bullet that killed 16-year-old Jonisha Tucker in San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood was fired by a 14-year-old boy. <span class="byline">Jaxon Van Derbeken</span> </p> <ul class="multimedia"> <li><a href="/web/20081021033446/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2008/10/19/MN6D13JN34.DTL"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20081021033446im_/http://imgs.sfgate.com/graphics/utils/mmicon_comment.gif" alt=""/> Comment</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20081021033446/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2008/10/20/MN6D13JN34.DTL&o=0"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20081021033446im_/http://imgs.sfgate.com/graphics/utils/mmicon_photo.gif" alt="Photos"/> Photos</a></li> </ul> <ul class="subitems"> <li class="first"><a href="/web/20081021033446/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/20/BARB13L0UD.DTL">East Bay killer of 5 should die, jury says</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20081021033446/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/20/BARB13L23G.DTL">Moonlighting bank robber sentenced</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20081021033446/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/20/BACS13K1IL.DTL">Violin thief gets prison, likely deportation</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20081021033446/http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/">Crime page</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="item clearfix"> <h2><a href="/web/20081021033446/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/19/MNH413KMD3.DTL">Just Do It ... 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