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...only person more vocal than Kolbe about his hatred of the penny is recent Berkeley biophysics Ph.D. Jeff Gore. Sensing the penny's sudden vulnerability, his group, Citizens for Retiring the Penny (basically also known as Jeff Gore), has been appearing all over news shows and talk radio. Based on a Walgreen's study that says pennies waste two or more seconds on every cash transaction, Gore estimates that we each lose several hours a year, at a cost of $10 billion in productivity. Using that calculation, Gore has lost $50 billion in productivity by talking about the penny...
...eventually succumbed to mental illness and was confined to an asylum near Zurich for the rest of his life. Things turned out better for Hans Albert. He went to the Zurich Polytechnic, where his parents had met, studied engineering, and later became a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He would be at the bedside when his father died, 40 years after the tumultuous year when he conquered his theory of gravity while wrestling with the even more mysterious forces that swirled around his family...
...Berkeley has always had a foreign policy, the national one notwithstanding...
ALBERT SUKOFF, resident of Berkeley, Calif., after the city council agreed to put to voters a symbolic measure calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney because of Iraq...
...Eugene Volokh, a UCLA constitutional law professor and popular legal blogger, dismisses Berkeley's move as a "man bites dog story." Berkeley's new ballot measure and the grassroots movement to impeach Bush is just a way for the far left to express its "visceral anger," he says; unlike previous calls for presidential impeachment, which involved "clear criminal violations," the call by Berkeley and other cities to impeach Bush is about opposition to "judgment calls dealing about very, very serious national security problems." But as a veteran of the sharply divided blogosphere, Volokh should know better than most that criminality...