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...stole a Ming dynasty scroll from the Berkeley Art Museum and got away with...
...birthday. My sister lives in San Francisco, so we met there to celebrate. I was an art student in Los Angeles, and I flew up. We all decided to go to a Richard Avedon photography show in Berkeley. I was kind of a con artist--small jobs, like getting in movies free--and I guess I was ready for a big job. While they were all looking at the photographs, I went to the next gallery, where the museum was installing scrolls from the Ming dynasty. The room was unguarded, and I slid an 8-ft. piece of Plexiglas...
...mall, it's basically all you see," says Irene Hukkelhoven, a sophomore at Governor Livingston High School in Berkeley Heights, N.J. "They have dedicated themselves entirely to this preppy style." Hukkelhoven, for one, seems relieved. "When that whole skin-is-in thing was happening, you could not walk down the hall [at school] without a girl bending over and her panties sticking out. Now it's looked at as slutty if your jeans are really low." So what's on the 16-year-old's fall shopping list? She's on the lookout for Polo shirts (which she'll wear...
Livestock owners around the world generally kill predators, but the 45,000-acre Mugie Ranch is trying something new. It is part of the Laikipia Predator Project, run by wildlife biologist Laurence Frank of the University of California, Berkeley, who is seeking better ways for big cats and humans to coexist. Adapting techniques from Masai tribesmen, who have herded cattle amid predators in this region for centuries, he is teaching ranchers to build taller, stronger bomas--traditional livestock pens made of thorn branches--to stop night-time raids by lions. When the herds are let out to graze during...
...anti-Nazi underground in Warsaw. Later, after a stint as a diplomat, he broke from the Polish government and wrote about the plight of intellectuals under communism in his 1953 essay collection, The Captive Mind. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1960, he taught Slavic literature at Berkeley for more than 20 years...