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...What economists call the return to education has been increasing very dramatically," Lemann says. "Back in my era, the smart kid in California would go to Stanford or Berkeley. Now the smart kid...is much more likely to apply to Harvard. You have a bigger pool of people chasing a fixed number of slots in the top professional schools...
...Berkeley, for example, the number of those admits has dropped, from 1,778 in 1997 to 1,169 this year--a decline of 34 percent...
...Berkeley and U.C.L.A., there's about a 50 percent decline in the number of African-Americans admitted," Bagley said. "The same thing is true for Chicanos...
Although born in New York City, Sontag was raised in Arizona and California and entered the University of California, Berkeley, in 1948 at the age of 15. She transferred to the University of Chicago in 1949, and attended graduate school at Harvard from...
...improving success rate is bolstering the case for biotech. "More than half of all new drugs approved today are coming out of the biotech sector," says Jim McCamant, editor of the Medical Technology Stock Letter in Berkeley, Calif. Some 350 biotech products are in trials, and more than 100 are on the market. Among recent blockbusters: Herceptin, a breast-cancer treatment from Genentech, and Enbrel, an arthritis medication from Immunex. Yet a few standouts hardly guarantee the success of an entire industry. That's where gene mapping becomes critical...