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That may be an extreme view-as long as music is played, there will be a need for violinists, clarinetists and pianists-but the statement contains more than a little truth. Inventor Buchla, busy designing a new generation of machines in his Berkeley workshop, envisions an instrument without a keyboard at all. Moog, now in North Carolina, is "working with musicians who need instruments that don't exist." If they succeed, the future could hold an aesthetic in which unconventional sounds fall as lightly and harmoniously on the ear as the C major scale...
...Berkeley, Calif...
...last year when traces of it were found in water supplies. Still, some experts argue that the hazards of EDB are exaggerated. "Compared with smoking, the danger of eating a few muffins is incredibly low," says Bruce Ames, chairman of the biochemistry department at the University of California at Berkeley. "It doesn't deserve the headlines it's been getting. A peanut-butter sandwich is more of a risk." For state and federal regulators, the real question is what level of risk is acceptable. "Any amount is a risk," says Olaf Leifson, environmental monitoring chief for the California...
Outside of the Ivies, it is not unusual for some schools to house thousands of students in cooperatives. At the University of California at Berkeley, for example, the co-op lifestyle is flourishing, according to Craig Reynolds, a spokesman for the University Students' Cooperative Association, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year...
...business from Harvard, the Illinois-born Perkins went west 27 years ago to work at Hewlett-Packard, the Palo Alto, Calif., electronics firm. In 1966 he took $15,000 that he and his wife had been saving to buy a house and invested it in University Laboratories, a Berkeley, Calif., laser company. That stake returned $2 million and launched Perkins' career as a venture capitalist...