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...golf team, which showed it could handle the heat just fine. The lone East Coast representative in a battle of California schools, the Crimson competed in the Desert Individual Classic last Friday and was by no means left out in the cold. Taking on players from Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC Davis and UCLA, the Harvard contingent held its own in the 18-hole individual tournament, held at the famed Stadium Course at La Quinta, a par 72, 6,166-yard course. Two Crimson golfers placed within the top eight, and four within the top twelve...
...example, in one experiment, the researchers gave 89 undergraduate business-school students from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Maryland a dollar. They told the students they could keep the money or use it to buy candy. About half the students were given a dollar bill, while the other half were given four quarters. Only 26% of the students who got the bill spent the money, while 63% of the students given quarters bought some candy. However, once they decided to spend, the students with the paper made bigger purchases. (See Real Simple's saving and budgeting...
...probably no one in America more elated than Alice Waters. For months, Waters had been engaged in a very public lobbying effort to get the First Family to take this step in the name of healthy, sustainable eating. The mother of the local-food movement and owner of Berkeley's famed Chez Panisse restaurant talked to TIME about President Kennedy's influence on her ideals, why she has a newfound love for the Department of Agriculture and how a well-made pasta dish can soften the psychological blow of the recession. (See the top 10 food trends...
...Berkeley, you're lucky to have a huge variety of seasonal food year-round. But elsewhere, isn't it pretty hard to say to people, 'No more oranges in the winter time and no more bananas ever...
...those same economic theories, as soon as the economy recovers, and sustained deficits revert to dangers that can damage economic growth. "In terms of getting our act together, we are certainly going to be facing the longer term in a bad position," said Alan Auerbach, an economist at U.C. Berkeley, about the latest round of CBO estimates...