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...station attendants, security guards, dishwashers. Those openings are often grabbed up by people who used to earn twice or three times as much. To get any job at all, some people are downplaying their talents and training, hoping to avoid the stigma of "overqualification." Marge Johnston, 49, of Berkeley, Calif, has been a medical microbiologist for 23 years and unemployed for the past 17 months. Says she: "Nobody is going to hire a microbiologist to drive a bus. But I'm prepared to handle that. On job application forms, I can put down that I'm only...
...avid fisherman who now lives in the hills of Berkeley. California. Taj is most concerned about people's lack of concern for the land. "Nobody's paying any attention to the ecology...People have no respect for the land, and that's because they don't have any vested interest in it...Folk music was developed by people who wanted to maintain the tradition of the land because they had to work it all the time. You've got to have a song to work the land. That's why I think that sometimes certain people from Northern Europe...
...sleepy Mississippi River town of Quincy, Ill. (pop. 45,288) is an unlikely place for an educational mecca. Yet school administrators from as far away as Berkeley, Calif, Los Angeles, Boston and New York frequently tour the city's sprawling Senior High School II. For the past few years the school has been the site of conferences on educational alternatives that have been attended by 2,000 delegates from all over the country. What attracts the educators is Quincy's Education by Choice program, in which the high school is divided into seven separate subschools, each with different...
...union hall of Local 186 of the Cooks and Pastry Cooks Association, AFL-CIO, is on Berkeley St. near Boston's South End, on the second floor of a crumbling brick building. It's an old office, dim with scuffed linoleum floors and paraphernalia all over the walls. Most of the space in the office is taken up by a large room filed with folding chairs that face a podium...
...potential source of relief. Instead, he encounters only additional frustration in the person of an eight-months-pregnant Doris. This pattern of blighted expectations recurs in the opening scene of the second act; this time, George-now a stuff, Establishment type-exchanges verbal thrusts with Doris-metamorphosed into a Berkeley flower child. Refusing indignantly to sleep with a former Goldwater voter, Doris sniffs, "And all the time I though Democrat...