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...just finished medical school in Paris in 1984 when he accepted his first assignment in Honduras. "It was a very strong experience," he says, "and I was hooked." After subsequent postings to Thailand, Sudan and India, he is now studying public health at the University of California, Berkeley, to further his international work. "In France and elsewhere we are becoming more and more specialized," he says. "It's not the kind of medicine that is needed in the Third World...
...municipal purchases of Shell products. The move is largely symbolic: the city has done only $2,500 in business with Shell in two years. Calling the action "misguided," a Shell spokesman said the company has been a strong antiapartheid voice in South Africa. Boston was joined by Berkeley, whose city council ordered a similar boycott of Shell...
Mitchell finished his undergraduate study of anthropology, which he labels his "great original love," at the University of California at Berkeley in 1974 and went to graduate school at the University of Minnesota. It was at Berkeley, Mitchell says, that he first learned that he was fascinated by folklore and mythology...
...Crimson obtained its information about the 1982 and 1983 SAT scores of Harvard enrollees from Professor L.C. Wang at the University of California at Berkeley...
...current headquarters. In high school, after he was benched as a member of the varsity basketball team, he became head cheerleader instead. Reflecting on those years during a recent interview with TIME, Milken mused, "When things look their worst, you always have the seed of great improvements." At Berkeley during the mid-'60s, Milken concentrated on math and business courses rather than on protest. It was there that he first considered the far-reaching idea upon which he built his empire. Milken came across a study showing that junk bonds, which at the time were often called fallen angels because...