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...class, nicknamed FemSex, began in 1994 at UC Berkeley. Initially, FemSex was a class about erotica, but has since expanded into the topics of sexuality and reproductive rights, anatomy, and pornography. Last winter, FemSex debuted at Harvard, and it was such a hit that this spring the course has been expanded into two sections...
...going to get out of there for a while.”Four nights later—five days after I started—I finally got home on the night of Dec. 24. I celebrated Christmas with my family, and an absolutely wonderful friend in Berkeley hosted me for those four nights. Sure, I spent hours upon hours upon hours in airports, waited an entire day for a standby flight that never materialized, saw grown men break down and cry, and people be treated like animals by airport staffers. But a few things came out of the experience...
Saraf should know. Born in Bihar of a successful merchant family, he was the very embodiment of India's technology-fueled future, studying and later teaching science at Delhi's prestigious Indian Institute of Technology. He also spent time at Berkeley, where he met the American who is now his wife and the mother of their infant daughter. "I have an uncle who owns shops in Chandni Chowk," says Saraf, 37, from his home in San Jose, California. "When I was in high school, I lived above one of them. I actually saw some of the incidents in the book...
...young and bearded Wood, who joined the Harvard faculty as an assistant professor in 2005, brought the idea for the project from his graduate work at University of California at Berkeley. The project’s initial goal was to create a small device capable of sustained autonomous flight...
...without a government to enforce a monopoly of legal interpretation and sanction, Somalia has atomized into its ancient form - a collection of hundreds of clans, sub-clans and sub-sub-clans, making Mogadishu less a city than a collection of tribal neighborhoods. As a 22-year-old Berkeley political science graduate who joined the family firm 10 months ago, Sheikh is keenly aware of what his homeland is missing. "Somalia," he says, "is why you need government...