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...John Nash appeared in the press last week, a common reaction in and around Princeton, New Jersey, was a shock of recognition: "Oh, my gosh, it's him!" Nash, who shared the Economics Prize with John Harsanyi of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and Reinhard Selten of the University of Bonn, is a familiar eccentric in the university town -- a quiet, detached man who frequently spends his time riding the local "Dinky" train on its short hop between Princeton and Princeton Junction, reading newspapers discarded by other passengers. Some knew him as the author...
...article on Bullock focuses on her "method acting," alleging that she "founded a Cultural Studies program at Berkeley, became Counselor on Urban Affairs to Governor Wilson, and edited the business section of the Los Angeles Times" in preparation for her role in the movie "Demolition...
...common belief that hair dye caused cancer was based on a finding in 1975 by Dr. Bruce G. Ames, director of environmental health at the University of California at Berkeley. Ames observed that hair dye caused mutations in bacteria...
...People still say Columbus 'discovered' America, as if there were no indigenous people here already," Lawson said. "I would like to see it called Indigenous People's Day, as I believe it is called in Berkeley and in some other communities across the country...
...Americans and a German were also rewarded with the Nobel Prize in Economics using game strategy -- employed in, say, chess and poker -- to predict the market. The winners: John C. Harsanyi, a retired professor from the University of California at Berkeley; John F. Nash, a mathematician at Princeton University; and Reinhard Selten of the University of Bonn...