Word: berkeley
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...Sagan headed for the University of California at Berkeley, where he spent two years as a research fellow; he insisted on taking a turn at teaching a class, even though the terms of his contract did not require it. At the Stanford University School of Medicine he delved into the origins of life. Then he went off to teach and do research at Harvard and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass...
Other genetic-engineering companies have found large established firms to bankroll their research efforts rather than going to the stock market for capital. Berkeley-based Cetus, the oldest and largest of the firms, raised money by selling a microorganism it developed for penicillin production to Schering-Plough, a drug and cosmetic company. It also obtained backing from National Distillers & Chemical Corp. for a method to speed the manufacture of ethanol, which can be used with gasoline to make gasohol...
...familiar to serious students of poetry. Otherwise he is little known outside Poland and the Slavic language department of the University of California at Berkeley. Yet last week Czeslaw Milosz (pronounced Chess-wahf Mee-wash), 69, an émigré poet-scholar and naturalized American citizen, won the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature...
Jennifer Pierce Berkeley, Calif...
Also ranking in the top five were University of Florida, with 48 violent crimes; the University of Maryland at College Park, with 46; the University of California at Berkeley, with 45; and the University of Oklahoma, with...