Word: berkeley
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...last year when traces of it were found in water supplies. Still, some experts argue that the hazards of EDB are exaggerated. "Compared with smoking, the danger of eating a few muffins is incredibly low," says Bruce Ames, chairman of the biochemistry department at the University of California at Berkeley. "It doesn't deserve the headlines it's been getting. A peanut-butter sandwich is more of a risk." For state and federal regulators, the real question is what level of risk is acceptable. "Any amount is a risk," says Olaf Leifson, environmental monitoring chief for the California...
Outside of the Ivies, it is not unusual for some schools to house thousands of students in cooperatives. At the University of California at Berkeley, for example, the co-op lifestyle is flourishing, according to Craig Reynolds, a spokesman for the University Students' Cooperative Association, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year...
...ripe young age of 26. His 1978 treatise American Constitutional Law has become a primary reference work for scholars, lawyers and judges across the country and has been cited in more than 400 court cases. Jesse Choper, dean of the law school at the University of California at Berkeley, places Tribe at "the very top of his field" as one of the law's most brilliant scholars. In recent years. Tribe has also become a fearsome presence in the courtroom, where he generally takes the liberal side of legal and social issues. "I have enormous respect for his ability...
...business from Harvard, the Illinois-born Perkins went west 27 years ago to work at Hewlett-Packard, the Palo Alto, Calif., electronics firm. In 1966 he took $15,000 that he and his wife had been saving to buy a house and invested it in University Laboratories, a Berkeley, Calif., laser company. That stake returned $2 million and launched Perkins' career as a venture capitalist...