Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computers. Never mind that as a co-founder of Apple Computer, he amassed a fortune of $70 million. Stephen Wozniak, 35, has long been unhappy that he never graduated from college. He will finally fill that gap in his resume this week, when he receives a B.S. degree from Berkeley...
Taking an M.A. in sociology from Northwestern in 1970, Ford went west to law school at the University of California, Berkeley, because "I needed more credentials and equipment." After nearly three years of providing legal aid to welfare clients back in Chicago, he quit, frustrated by the low pay and disillusioned with the possibilities for creating change through the federal courts. He decided to go into real estate instead...
...Spring Valley, N.Y.; Josh H. Henkin '87 of Quincy House and New York, N.Y.; Jennifer M. O'Connor of Eliot House and Wellesley; David Patent '88 Cabot House and Missoula, Mont.; Ellen R. Pinchuk '88 of Mather House and Tarzana, Calif.; Peter D. Sagal '87 of Quincy House and Berkeley Heights, N.J.; Don W. Sung '89 of Thayer Hall and San Francisco, Calif.; John P. Thompson '89 of Pennypacker Hall and Madison, Wisc.; Nathaniel S. Trumbull '89 of Holworthy Hall and Woods Hole...
Three other Harvard-Smithsonian astronomers, James Moran, Mark Reid and Matthew Schneps also took part in the experiment. In addition, Dennis Downes of the Institut de Radio Astronomie Milimetrique in Grenoble, France, Reinhard Genzel of the University of California at Berkeley, and Bernt Ronnag of the Onsala Space Observatory in Sweden participated in the work...
Still, the Berkeley team was not satisfied with its hit-and-miss method of creating frost-inhibiting bacteria, and set about producing them by gene- splicing techniques. For meaningful experiments, enough of the bacteria had to be sprayed on test plants to overwhelm the natural variety. But the release into the environment of any genetically engineered microbes in those days required the nod of the National Institutes of Health recombinant-DNA committee,* which in 1983 approved the Berkeley scientists' proposal to conduct their test at a tiny potato patch near the city of Tulelake in Northern California...