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Asian Americans, however, could shoot as high as 35.4% system-wide and 54% at Berkeley. ''Berkeley will be 92% or 93% white and Asian,'' predicts Bob Laird, admissions director at the Berkeley campus. ''The lack of diversity will diminish the education of all the students who remain at Berkeley...
...Breslin's wheelchair breakdown, a day with them on the streets of the San Francisco Bay Area shows that commonplace life has improved dramatically for them since the advent of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Several years ago, for example, Breslin stopped at a drugstore near her home in Berkeley. The tight turnstiles at the entrance made access difficult, the checkout aisles were too narrow for her wheelchair, and Breslin had to wheel backward against the flow of other shoppers after she paid her bill. On a recent visit, she found that the store, now run by a different retailer...
Later, at a Bay Area Rapid Transit station in Berkeley, Breslin had to wheel backward into a small, smelly elevator, while other people used escalators. Martinez, who also rides BART, feels safe there, thanks to bumps, or "edge detection strips" that warn the blind away from the edge of the platforms. Despite the tight-elevator problem, bart is regarded as a disability-rights pioneer. "It was such a treat to take this train when I came to California years ago," says Breslin, who was raised in the Midwest. "I'd never lived anywhere where there was access...
...increasingly bizarre--and epistolary--Unabomber case took another odd turn when Tom Tyler, a University of California, Berkeley, social psychology professor, wrote an open letter to the serial bomber in the pages of the San Francisco Chronicle. Tyler was responding to a letter he had received from the Unabomber that came with a copy of the terrorist's as yet unpublished 35,000-word anti-technology manifesto. The correspondence followed remarks that the professor made about the case to the press. The gist of Tyler's message to the Unabomber: your manifesto raises some valid points, but none that justify...
Peet's Coffee was established in Berkeley, CA in 1966 and since then has developed a loyal following of coffee critics, called "Peetniks," in Northern California...