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TODAY ClimateActionTeam meeting 7:30to9:30p.m. Clubroom,VeteransMemorialCenter,203E.14th St. The City ofDavisClimate Action Team willhave a discussion on community choice aggregation,a type of public power.Speakers will include PG&E employees as well as local clean energy advocates.

Most students have had this nightmare before — they are sitting in class, talking to their friends and all of a sudden, their mother walks into the classroom.

Editor’snote:For this week’s10questions,TheCalifornia Aggie spoke withDavisregionallibrarianJay Johnstone,who oversees the Mary L.Stephens public library inDavis.

John Maurice Tucker,a UC Davis professor emeritus of botany and world-renowned oakspecialist and plant expert,diedJuly5from a stroke.He was92.

Amy Barr is still in shock. She and four other students from the UC Davis Graduate School of Management were recently awarded top honors in the Bank of America 17th Annual Low-income Housing Challenge.

WEDNESDAY Davis Farmers Market 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Central Park Buy local produce and more at the farmers market. For more information, visit davisfarmersmarket.org.

Have you ever wondered what kinds of research and activities take place on the different University of California campuses? The University of California Television gives students and the general public an inside view into what they may not know about UCs.

Editor’s note: In order to shed some light on its day to day operations, The Aggie talked to its own Jon Gold this week. The managing editor is a senior political science and international relations double major.

Talking on your cell phone frequently could produce an expensive phone bill – but could it also give you cancer? For now, the answer is no. There have been several studies about the link between cell phones and brain cancer and many of them have pointed toward the negative.

Honeybees do more than sting you. Without them, you wouldn’t get to eat your favorite fruits, nuts and ice cream flavors. And due to a recent mysterious decline in honeybee colonies, you may actually be losing more than that.

The male Japanese beetle doesn’t look for a pretty face when trying to choose a mate. Instead, the invasive pest sniffs for a female’s sex pheromone, a chemical signal which she naturally releases, which the male detects with an enzyme in its antennae, said UC Davis entomology professor and chemical ecologist Walter Leal.

TUESDAY Tcheka concert 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. The Quad SummerMusic 2008, a free concert series put on by the Mondavi Center, will kick off Tcheka’s blend of world music and jazz. Go enjoy this free event!