Word: berkeley
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...m.p.h. and cruise at 20 m.p.h. for about half an hour. They are already selling well both in the U.S. and abroad. "The beauty of this thing, says Jim Rugroden, 28, who invented the item when he was a physics student at the University of California at Berkeley, "is that it can go anywhere. Even up hills, apparently, provided the surface is hard and smooth Motoboarding is no cheap thrill, however. A standard Motoboard retails tor the special custom model...
Although Harvard had the most departments rated as "best," the University trailed Stanford and the University of California at Berkeley in the total number of departments ranked in the top five...
...Guyana group was in its last days, but many of them share a number of unusual characteristics. Social scientists who have studied these groups agree that most cult members are in some sort of emotional trouble before they join. Says Dr. Margaret Thaler Singer, a psychologist at Berkeley: "About one-third are very psychologically distressed people. The other two-thirds are relatively average people, but in a period of depression, gloom, being at loose ends." Such people are vulnerable to well-planned recruitment techniques. These usually involve displays of effusive affection and understanding, or "love bombing," as one psychiatrist puts...
...using such genetic differences almost as if they were tree rings, Sarich and John Cronin have gone on at Berkeley to produce a chronology for the appearance of various creatures. Their research has provided hitherto unavailable biochemical support for the traditional idea that the Asian apes, the gibbons and orangutans, branched off from the common primate evolutionary tree much earlier than chimps, gorillas and man. But it also offers what Sarich and Cronin consider strong evidence that the split between man and African apes occurred only 4 million to 6 million years...
Thanksgiving Day was even then an old tradition, of course. The first one had been celebrated in 1619 at the Berkeley settlement near Jamestown, Va., and this year the same feast was re-created at Berkeley Plantation, as it traditionally is, with an outdoor turkey roast on the first...