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...that the rate of mutation of mitochondrial DNA is constant enough to support conclusions about chronological dating. "Physical anthropology remains the gold standard for dating," says geneticist Mark Stoneking of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, a member of the team at the University of California, Berkeley that in 1987 identified "Mitochondrial Eve" as the 140,000- to 280,000-year-old ancestor of all living humans. "But we're getting better at genetic dating all the time...
...always been puzzling, why Harvard students have always been so dismissive of student protests. At other universities, students love to protest. At the University of California—Berkeley there’s always a vigil, a sit-in, a march or a rally being held. Students don’t just occupy the president’s office; they string themselves up on the campanile and hang in tents hundreds of feet off the ground for days on end. Harvard students, on the other hand, tend to support dialogue with the administration...
However, over the last several years dialogue has led, at least in the protestors’ eyes, to nothing. The more radical actions of students like those at Berkeley, however, have reaped large rewards. In the spring of 1999 Berkeley students staged an eight-day hunger strike in which 100 people were arrested in order to save their ethnic studies department. The costs were high—five students were put on trial for their activities during the strike—but their demands were...
David Horowitz drew national attention when he attempted to take out an advertisement, titled "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery is a Bad Idea-and Racist Too," in student papers at campuses around the country last month. Student papers at Brown and UC Berkeley, which accepted the advertisement, were met the following day with protests, calls for resignations and vandalism to their distribution system...
...society where control of the media is steadily being consolidated by a small number of corporations," Noguera argued. He added that while the vandalism at Brown and Berkeley was unacceptable, "protest is a legitimate way to get an issue across in an environment where those issues are being brushed aside...