<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Santa Cruz: News &amp; Videos about Santa Cruz - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Santa_Cruz</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Santa Cruz from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:42:09 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Santa Cruz: News &amp; Videos about Santa Cruz - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Santa_Cruz</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Santa Cruz from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Third day of fee protests at California universities</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/21/california.student.protest/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/21/california.student.protest/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Demonstrators entered their third day of a building takeover at UC Santa Cruz on Saturday in protest of a tuition increase, an undertaking that a school spokesman called futile.</description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:43:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Storm threatens California with flooding, mudslides</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/weather/10/13/california.rain/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/weather/10/13/california.rain/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Heavy rain that began pounding California on Tuesday threatened to unleash dangerous floods and mudslides, especially in areas ravaged by wildfires.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Foodie feasts straight from the farm</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/31/smallbusiness/movable_feast.fsb/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/31/smallbusiness/movable_feast.fsb/index.htm</guid><description>I'm standing with 140 other ravenous diners outside a pigpen on Devil's Gulch Ranch, about 30 miles north of San Francisco, looking at an exhausted 350-pound sow named Penelope. 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</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 23:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Thousands rally for autonomy in Bolivia</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/04/30/bolivia.autonomy/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/04/30/bolivia.autonomy/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Thousands of people packed a broad street Wednesday in downtown Santa Cruz, Bolivia, listening to speakers urge them to vote "Si" Sunday on a referendum seeking autonomy for the eastern department of Santa Cruz.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 03:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Crisis talks to avert Bolivian split</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/01/09/bolivia.unity/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/01/09/bolivia.unity/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Bolivian government representatives will meet with breakaway governors next week in a bid to avert a political split that threatens to tear the Andean country in half.</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:22:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Four Bolivian regions declare autonomy from government</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/12/15/bolivia.unrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/12/15/bolivia.unrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Tensions were rising in Bolivia on Saturday as members of the country's four highest natural gas-producing regions declared autonomy from the central government.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:54:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Tim Vickery: Santa Cruz is Paraguay's biggest star in Premiership</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/tim_vickery/09/04/paraguay.england/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/tim_vickery/09/04/paraguay.england/index.html</guid><description>They are feared throughout South America for their fighting spirit, their teamwork and their aerial prowess. 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Evo Morales, a former coca growers' union leader and the new President of Bolivia, has pledged to nationalize his country's oil and gas industry, redistribute privately owned land, and decriminalize the coca leaf, a staple of Bolivian indigenous culture as well as the prime ingredient in the manufacturing of cocaine.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:28:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>From Debtors to Millionaires Overnight</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2005/09/01/8217980/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2005/09/01/8217980/index.htm</guid><description>ng to tell him that his 63-year-old father had died suddenly. Then, weeks after Baran returned to school from his home in Santa Barbara, he had more unexpected news: a call informing him that he was the sole heir to his father's half-million-dollar 401(k). Stunned and upset, he barely registered a single detail from the conversation and had to call back to check the amount. "It didn't sink in," recalls Baran, 37. "I had no idea he'd saved that much." After all, Baran hadn't grown up rich. His father worked as a meter reader for an electric company for 35 years and raised his family in a modest 1,900-square-foot three-bedroom home near the University of California at Santa Cruz. But an even bigger surprise was still to come. About a week later, his stepmother e-mailed to say that he'd also inherited his childhood home, now worth $850,000, with just $148,000 left on the mortgage. Over the phone, his wife, Erin Chrislock, read him the will that had just arrived in the mail. 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