Word: berkeley
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...overall restructuring program. Starting last spring, more than 800 corporate employees lost their jobs. Plans were laid to close corporate offices in Washington and to trim operations in New York City and in London, where the corporate staff last year moved into a glossy new global headquarters on sedate Berkeley Square. In addition, five of the firm's twelve directors left. As rumors of further shake-ups spread, Carl Spielvogel offered in July to buy the Backer Spielvogel Bates network. Charles Saatchi declined...
...formidable contrarian is Bruce Ames, a biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley. He contends that obsessive concern with cancer-causing chemicals in foods, pesticides and toxic wastes has produced a regulatory tangle at EPA and a superfluous Superfund to clean dump sites. Government restrictions on man-made chemicals are absurdly stringent in proportion to ; their risk, says Ames. He notes that while the public panicked last spring because of trace amounts of the synthetic growth regulator Alar found on apples, many fruits contain natural carcinogens in concentrations 1,000 times as great. Observes Ames: "Eating vegetables and lowering...
Yesterday, Holleran nabbed the title with a 3-2 win over Yale's Berkeley Belknap...
...Rifkin's first assaults on DNA technology was directed at Steven Lindow, a plant pathologist for the University of California, Berkeley. Lindow had discovered a way of snipping a particular gene from bacteria so that the redesigned microbes resisted frost formation down to 24 degrees F. Theoretically, crops sprayed with the microbes could be protected from cold snaps. In 1983 Lindow got permission from the NIH to test his bugs, which he called ice-minus, on a small plot of potatoes in Northern California...
Lindow's bugs were to be the first genetically altered bacteria released into the environment. Although there was strong evidence that the microbes were benign, biologists at Berkeley and the NIH had failed to consider fully the experiment's environmental impact. The oversight allowed Rifkin to sue to block the experiment. The courts agreed, and, thanks to Rifkin, testing was postponed for three years while the NIH, the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency struggled to draw up rules under which genetically engineered products would move from the lab to the field...