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Jennifer Lobo. By all rights, Lobo should be a microbiologist. "I fell in love with the field in high school," she says, after reading The Double Helix by Nobel Laureate James Watson. Lobo majored in microbiology at the University of California, Berkeley, and took advanced courses in bacteriology and immunology. Says she: "I was really quite a good laboratory scientist." The experience stands her in good stead as she crisscrosses the continent, working 14-to-18-hour days. Lobo, 31, keeps tabs on a handful of health-care firms for Domain Associates, the Princeton, N.J., venture capital firm that...
Putnam also said a Berkeley Professor, Nelson W. Polsby, will make a decision on a joint tenure offer by the Government Department and the Kennedy School of Government after a one-year stint at Harvard next year...
...candidates, Kenneth H. Simmons '54, John T. Plotz '69, and Gay W. Seidman '78, all of Berkeley, Calif., said they support the contentionss in the complaint and also plan to take Harvard to court if they lose their bids...
...prototype for a workstation. McNealy recalls that Khosla persuaded him over a dinner of McDonald's Big Macs to quit his job as director of operations at Onyx Systems, a computer company, and help found a new firm. The next recruit was Joy, a Ph.D. candidate in engineering at Berkeley and a leading computer- software designer...
...uphold the notion that Type-A behavior leads to increased heart risk. Scherwitz's own projects turned up evidence that some Type A's may be better off than many of the placid Type B's. A pioneer in the field, Ray Rosenman of the University of California, Berkeley, now says that Type-A behavior "may not necessarily be bad for any given individual at all." Other researchers reported that many of the traits associated with Type-A behavior, including fast-paced speech and eating and a sense of urgency about time, do not seem to increase the risk...