Word: berkeley
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Penn finished 5.5 seconds behind Yale to finish third, just one second ahead of California-Berkeley. The University of British Columbia and California-Santa Barbara rounded out the top six in the early-season warmup for all squads...
Irene Chang, a junior at Berkeley, had not planned to apply for a credit card. Then she heard a rumor that students who asked for a Visa card or MasterCard at a campus Citibank booth were rejected if they were majoring in the humanities. An English major and a reporter for the college paper, the Daily Californian, Chang asked the company representative if the rumor was true. Said Chang: "She told me, 'Just put in either business administration or electrical engineering...
...virus to a woman through an act of unprotected vaginal intercourse, and a 1-in-600 risk of a woman to a man -- are supposedly based on a series of assumptions and statistical projections first described in 1987 by Nancy Padian and Jim Wiley of the University of California, Berkeley. The projections are already outmoded. Says Wiley: "A single number cannot describe the rate of transmission. There are too many variables...
...creators with $20,000 a year for life. (Superman's estimated overall value: more than $1 billion.) Siegel and Shuster agreed to keep the peace, but they are giving no interviews and joining no celebrations. "They are just in such pain over this situation," says Thomas Andrae, a Berkeley sociologist who knows them, "particularly as it gets closer to the anniversary...
...serious means that you can't show different facets of yourself. This was for fun. That's the spirit in which I took it, and the spirit in which I wish anybody else would take it." Others, though, see subtler motivations. Sociologist Arlie Hochschild of the University of California, Berkeley cautions that some women may feel less feminine the higher up the ladder they go and thus have a greater need to advertise their attractiveness. "It's almost an unconscious way of balancing their act," she says...