Word: berkeley
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...A.G.S. executives, the suspension of their permit to field test Frostban marked still another in a series of frustrating delays. As long ago as 1982, the company began partly financing the research efforts of Steven Lindow and Nickolas Panopoulos, plant pathologists at the University of California, Berkeley, who were attempting to engineer bacteria that would inhibit the formation of frost on plants. Their long-range goals: to extend the growing season and reduce crop damage caused by unseasonal frosts, which costs U.S. farmers at least $1.5 billion every year...
...Berkeley team had focused its efforts on the bacterium Pseudomonas syringae, which lives on the leaves of many plants and actually promotes the formation of frost. As the temperature drops below 32 degrees F, specks of protein produced by the bacteria act as nuclei for the growth of ice crystals (see chart). Without the bacteria and their protein particles, plants can briefly sustain temperatures as low as 25 degrees F before the dew turns to frost. The solution seemed simple enough: from 2% to 5% of the bacteria in nature lack the ability to manufacture the protein. If large numbers...
...resent the implication that the three of us aren't concerned with other issues in education because we are all deeply involved," said Seidman, a graduate student in sociology at the University of California at Berkeley...
...breed of banker is turning up on college campuses. Barely old enough to take out loans, much less authorize them, undergraduate financiers have established federally insured credit unions at twelve schools, from Berkeley to Babson College in Wellesley, Mass. Estimated combined assets so far: $10 million. The University of Colorado at Boulder will open one in June...
...know that the young woman next to him is Susanna Hoffs from Los Angeles. Her father and mother met at Yale, where he was a med student and she was studying art. Now her father is a psychoanalyst, her mother a film director, and their daughter, who graduated from Berkeley, is . . . well, currently on tour. As one of the four members of a sensational rock outfit called the Bangles. Who have a new Columbia album called Different Light. Who have an ace single, Manic Monday, written pseudonymously by Prince and closing like an Exocet onto the top of the charts...