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...observations show that the universe is expanding faster today than yesterday," said Adam Reiss, an astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley, in The New York Times in March...
...families, in which education is often not held in high regard. As a result of their parents' indifference, a number of these children do not perform well in school and are generally ill prepared for any college, much less schools with high academic standards, like the University of California, Berkeley. It's time for the media and minority leaders to quit screaming about racial injustice and begin preaching the message that preparation for college begins early, and it begins in the home. BOB PARKER Trussville...
...When he told the FBI about his theory, they were intrigued, and asked for more. So he began deconstructing the Unabomber's taunting letters to authorities. That's how, a year before former Berkeley math professor Theodore Kaczynski was arrested in the Montana woods, Jones predicted that the Unabomber would have read author Joseph Conrad, would see himself as in "a war to save the world," and would be "an intellectual, a "conservationist," a loner, and possibly a college teacher...
...Diego. Banks, on the other hand, see dollar signs: They lose around $600 million in fraudulent checks every year. But most customers, like Taussig, simply see a breakdown in trust. Whether his case will give banks a big thumb in the eye is now in the hands of a Berkeley area judge...
Five years ago, an eco-activist and self-taught electronics whiz named Stephen Dunifer founded Free Radio Berkeley, trekking up into the hills behind the city and transmitting out of his backpack one night a week with home-built equipment. Soon, with the help of volunteers, Dunifer, 46, was selling kits around the country, enabling anyone who could raise a few hundred dollars to launch a station with a transmitter powered by fewer watts than a light bulb, often covering a radius of only a few miles. Dunifer co-edited a book, Seizing the Airwaves, and mounted...