Word: berkeley
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...Hare Krishna movement. But it does, mainly because their approach focuses almost exclusively on bizarre and scandalous events. Following the 1977 death of founder A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, each of his closest disciples split off to establish his own turf. For example, Hans Kary of Hoboken, N.J., headed for Berkeley, where, as Hansadutta, he became a Krishna guru who financed rock-'n'-roll albums and amassed an arsenal of firearms...
Opponents argue that homosexuals and drug users who now get tested for HIV only because they are assured of confidentiality would be scared off by Proposition 102. Says David Kirp, professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley: "If you push hard enough, people won't come into the clinics." Moreover, some opponents suspect that the "reasonable cause to believe" provision would encourage the reporting of people simply because they appear...
...University of Chicago there are sevenAsian or Asian-American graduate students instatistics out of a total 18. At the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley, there are 34 Asian orAsian-American students among the 70 statisticsgraduate students...
...passage to Ecotopia is impossible to buy, because this country of fiercely energized environmentalists exists only in the mind of Berkeley writer Ernest ("Chick") Callenbach, 59. Since his novel Ecotopia was first published in 1975, it has become an environmental classic. Now, after a summer of discontent -- ozone smog, sewage and medical wastes on beaches and fears of a global warming caused by the greenhouse effect -- the novel is winning new popularity. "It's a super book. It really gets students discussing solutions to our environmental problems," says William Hastings, a professor at San Diego Mesa College, who is using...
...registered more Democrats than any other Democrat," he said quickly, without being asked. "Last week -- let me give you a typical Jackson schedule -- I was in New York on Saturday morning, speaking at 10 to a university, Teamsters at 12, Chicago that night. Los Angeles that Sunday; Berkeley, Calif., that Monday; and Georgia for three speeches that Tuesday...