Word: berkeley
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...While it is sensible to be able to recall judges for corruption or incompetence, is it desirable for them to have to worry about voters when they make their legal judgments? Courts were never intended to reflect the popular will in the manner of legislatures. In judicial elections, says Berkeley Law Professor Franklin Zimring, "you walk the tightrope between democratic accountability and popular passion. Everybody agrees that accountability is fine and passion stinks, but how do you tell the difference...
...galaxy formation, which holds that galaxies required billions of years to grow around very dense clumps of invisible particles. Yet 4C41.17, which appears to be mature, is probably no older than 1 billion to 2 billion years. Says Team Member Wil van Breugel of the University of California, Berkeley: "If you are the universe and are ten years old, this galaxy is one year...
...denying there's a problem than dealing with it," says Deborah Meyer, associate director for 9 to 5, National Association of Working Women. Labor and management in California agree on most of the remedies, according to Laura Stock of the Labor Occupational Health Program at the University of California, Berkeley. "The argument," she says, "seems to be about who has ultimate control of the workplace...
...NIMBY syndrome. It is happening in New York City, where middle- class homeowners are on trial on charges of setting fire to a foster home for infants. In tiny Louisa, Ky., it is the battle cry against a proposed hazardous-waste incinerator. It has cropped up in Berkeley, where residents banded together to keep out a drop-in center for the emotionally disturbed. The acronym stands for "not in my backyard," and it symbolizes a perverse form of antisocial activism. "Everybody says, 'Take care of the homeless, take care of the boarder babies,' " says New York City Mayor Edward Koch...
...residents about new projects or do not respond to their complaints. In Van Nuys, a Los Angeles suburb, the state department of corrections quietly installed 54 inmates in a work-furlough program housed in a former health club, leaving the building's sign -- Aerobics and Nautilus Unlimited -- intact. In Berkeley, after James Kelly repeatedly complained to city officials about the offensive behavior of homeless squatters next door, he finally got frustrated enough to take action: he allegedly lobbed Molotov cocktails at his obstreperous neighbors. Kelly, 47, a utility engineer with no previous criminal record, faces up to eight years...