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Indeed, Wilson estimates that there are fewer than 50 "marriageable" black men between the ages of 20 and 24 for every 100 black women of the same age group. Says Ronald Takaki, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley: "We now have a black population whose labor has been rendered superfluous." He adds, "Statistically, it is impossible for even a third of all black women in this age group to be married to employed black men earning above poverty incomes." Some partly blame a welfare system based on Aid to Families with Dependent Children, which often...
Duded-Up Fantasy American Cookery could have been the title of the book by Jeremiah Tower, the over-celebrated chef and co-owner of both the Santa Fe Bar and Grill in Berkeley and Stars in San Francisco. But with no false modesty, he chose to call it New American Classics (Harper & Row; $25). Translation: the bizarre California-style dishes Tower created for his trendy restaurants. There is a windy self-congratulatory text, a double-page spread reproducing the author's signature and some superfluous vista photographs a la Falcon Crest. Inevitably, there are many of the California cliches...
...result of its indiscretions, the band was suspended from playing at the UCLA game November 8, and will not be allowed to march--or urinate--on the field at the traditional Big Game against University of California at Berkeley next weekend...
...University of California at Berkeley, the rising demand in the private sector for experts in medicine, law, and engineering has spurred greater competition for faculty, according to Fritz Stern, Berkeley's principal budget analyst...
...effort to correct these assumptions, some 2,000 teachers have taken a + five-day consciousness-raising seminar sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation and administered by Berkeley-based Equals in Computer Technology. More than 4,000 women, many of them teachers, have paid $295 to attend the San Francisco-based Women's Computer Literacy Project, a two-day total-immersion course...