Word: berkeley
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...sight, however, was decidedly unspectacular. Because it was still too far from the sun to sport a visible tail, and 58 million miles away from earth, the comet looked like little more than a smudged and dusty fingerprint. Or, as Hyron Spinrad, a cosmologist from the University of California, Berkeley, declared, "It's a wimp." Still, everyone was delighted. For the skywatchers, the appearance of Halley's was a once-in-a- lifetime event, and they viewed it as a sort of psychological and even spiritual landmark. Said Astronomer Susan Wyckoff of Arizona State University in Tempe: "Just...
...Oort Cloud, explains Berkeley's Spinrad, would consist of at least a trillion "dull blocks of ice," ranging from a few inches to a few miles in diameter. Out in that velvet blackness of space, where temperatures approach absolute zero, the snowballs remain unchanged, well beyond the effects of solar radiation, meteorite impacts, volcanic activity, atmosphere and other phenomena that have gradually changed the inner members of the solar system. Every once in a while, however, a passing star gives the cloud a gravitational jiggle, releasing hundreds of these fragments. Most of them are sent outward into interstellar space...
...newsletter has spawned imitators at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and the Schools of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University, according to The Health Letter's general manager, Andrea P. Graham...
Laurence H. Tribe '62, Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law, who is representing Berkeley, said a decision against the city could jeopardize Cambridge's 15-year-old rent control regulations...
...city officials here stressed that since Cambridge's rent control has been approved by the state while Berkeley's has not, a victory for the California landlords might not affect rent control here...