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...while the University is eager to keep up with other institutions such as the University of California system and the University of Michigan which already have digital libraries online and accessible, their digital-information counterparts at the University of California-Berkeley said the field is so new, no one can be expected to be that far ahead in the game...
...starting gate," says Roy Tennant, digital library project manager for the University of California-Berkeley. "There's so much to be understood. It's just that all of a sudden, digital libraries have become a very sexy topic...
...rankings have also become enormously controversial. Among the schools critical of the system are members of U.S. News's own top-25 club: Berkeley, Tufts, Rice, M.I.T. and Wesleyan. Critics rally around Stanford president Gerhard Casper's censure of the "specious formulas and spurious precision" of the lists. What is wrong, many say, is that the conclusions are based too much on input--the current reputation of each school and the attributes of incoming students. More helpful, they say, would be a measure of output--what consumers (that's what applicants really are) are likely to get in exchange...
Energy bars were invented with hard-core athletes in mind. Brian Maxwell, distance-running coach at the University of California, Berkeley, and his wife Jennifer cooked up the first PowerBars in their kitchen in 1983. They were looking for a performance-enhancing food that marathoners could scarf down late in a race. The Maxwells made a bar that was about 45% complex carbohydrates and only 10% fat. But the trade-off was losing some foodlike qualities: PowerBars have a rubbery texture that can take some getting used...
...says, "so why not in hotels?" Film critic Richard Corliss, who says he loves Las Vegas for its "concentration of kitsch," attended the opening-night performance of the new Cirque de Soleil underwater spectacular, O. He describes the show as "a mixture of Samuel Beckett, Fellini and Busby Berkeley." West Coast bureau chief Cathy Booth and Denver chief Richard Woodbury approached the story from a business perspective, examining the city's need to attract new visitors. "Every couple of years, Vegas has to come up with something new to remain profitable," Booth says. "Now they're going after the high...