Word: berkeley
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Palestine and Berkeley Patty Hearst heard the burst...
There are more than 300 such firms with subsidiaries in South Africa that annually do a total of $1.7 billion worth of business. Students charge that universities, by owning stock in these corporations, are indirectly supporting a racist government; they demand that the stock be sold. Proclaims one Berkeley activist: "We're calling for complete divestiture and nothing short...
Morris is not alone in his strong and early criticism of the governor of Fruit and Nut Land. The New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis '48, abroad at home in Berkeley, California, a while back, took advantage of the opportunity to interview Brown, and he was not impressed. In a series of columns that were a far cry from his usual philosophical, reflective, issue-oriented pieces, Lewis described his interviews with Brown, whose undisciplined, if provocative thinking reminded him of the musings of a precocious graduate student. Lewis is too kind to graduate students...
...irrigated land live within 50 miles of their farms. But these restrictions, which were designed to preserve family farms, have never been enforced. Paul Taylor, who served as a consultant to the Department of the Interior from 1943 to 1952 and is now Professor Emeritus of Economics at Berkeley, has explained, "The central problem arose from the fact that potentially irrigable lands had largely passed into private hands long before public reclamation became a reality. This created special interests resistant to the controls over monopoly..." Today over one million acres are being irrigated in violation...
...married. Attend church. Join the Elks or even a Jacuzzi club. Whatever, so long as you keep in touch. Such behavior may be the best prescription for long and healthy life, according to research by Epidemiologist Lisa Berkman of the University of California at Berkeley. Studying the lives of 7,000 people between the ages of 30 and 69 over a nine-year period, she found that extraverts are more likely to live longer than introverts, who tend to be overweight, smoke, shun exercise and drink too much. While outgoing types are inclined to stay in better physical shape, Berkman...