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DIED. Helen Ullrich, 83, founder of the international Society for Nutrition Education, who agitated for labels with nutritional information and introduced a food pyramid at a 1988 global conference, four years before the U.S. Department of Agriculture published its original standard Food Guide Pyramid; in Berkeley, Calif...
...University of Pennsylvania Law School to further pursue his beliefs in criminal justice reform. He later became a law professor and taught in the subsequent years at The University of Nebraska College of Law, Penn’s Law School, and finally at the Boalt School of Law at Berkeley, where he retired in 1987. During his twenty years there, he received the UC Berkeley Distiguished Teaching Award in 1983. He is best known for “Studies on Bail”, his book that was published in 1966 arguing for the reform of the bail system...
...University of California at Berkeley study made waves with the announcement that independent - though you could also say "self-absorbed" - children became liberals, and whiners went to the right. At an academic conference in January, researchers unveiled findings that showed Republicans to be more racist. Then a Feburary finding by Pew Research center found Republican voters to be happier than Democrats. Democrats: melancholy, fair-minded snobs. GOP: happy, biased bellyachers. No wonder Strom Thurmond felt more at home there...
...Summers delivered his now-infamous speech examining the under-representation of women in the upper echelons of science and engineering, a female professor of electrical engineering and computer science will help choose Summers’ successor. Susan L. Graham ’64 teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and she has served on Harvard’s Board of Overseers since...
...said about the nearby Hayward Fault. Along with the Calaveras, San Gregorio and Rogers Creek faults, the Hayward forms part of what scientists refer to as the San Andreas system, and it runs for 60 miles along the hills of the East Bay, cutting through the University of California, Berkeley, football stadium and skimming uncomfortably close to the Caldecott Tunnel, through which 153,000 cars pass daily. Major highways, including Interstate 80, cross the Hayward Fault, as do the pipelines that bring water down from the snow-clad Sierra. There are hundreds of privately owned structures in the fault zone...