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While the causes of extinction of the dinosuars have led to endless speculation, a group at the University of California at Berkeley led by Luis and Walter Alvarez have proposed a theory gaining wide acceptance as one of the plausible explanations...
...group then set about examining how the iridium spread throughout the world, says Helen Michael, one of the Berkeley team's principle researchers. They reasoned that iridium-rich asteroids bombarded the earth, kicking up so much terrestrial and asteroidal debris into the atmosphere that it blocked sunlight from the earth for as long as several months. As temperatures plummeted, plants and animals died, leaving the current fossil record...
...third party who is, in a sense, donating the use of her womb. "The possibilities are limited only by your imagination," observes Clifford Grobstein, professor of biological science and public policy at the University of California, San Diego. Says John Noonan, professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley: "We really are plunging into the Brave New World...
Leon Litwack, a Pulitzer-prizewinning historian at the University of California at Berkeley, strongly disagrees: "If there is any nostalgia for Nixon, it's not based on any new historical findings but on the perception of Nixon as less dangerous and more intelligent than the current President. To forgive the enormity of Nixon's crimes would be a mistake. He waged war on American citizens...
Freckled redhead Connie Carpenter-Phinney, 27, an Olympic speedskater in 1972 who rowed for the University of California at Berkeley and is built on the order of an oar, joined Teammate Rebecca Twigg, 21, in the lead pack?a six-pack?bearing down on the finish after more than two hours of the first women's road test in the history of the Games. Then the U.S. pair broke out on the wings, and screeched practically side by side across the line. Even before coasting to a stop, they came together in a sweet embrace. After 49.2 miles, Carpenter-Phinney...