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DIED. OWEN CHAMBERLAIN, 85, Nobel-prizewinning physicist at the University of California, Berkeley; in Berkeley, Calif. Chamberlain worked on the Manhattan Project and later apologized to the Japanese for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. In 1955, he and fellow Manhattan Project alum Emilio Segre identified the antiproton, the negatively charged mirror of the subatomic particle, a discovery that sparked still unresolved debates about the composition of the universe...
Budnitz, 38, a restless polymath from Berkeley, Calif., works from a Manhattan office that looks like a cross between a designer workshop and Peewee's Playhouse. "I've discovered something that uses all the things I've done," he says. That's no small feat. At 17 he was helping his father's colleague write risk-analysis software for nuclear power plants; by 21 he had an art degree from Yale. He got inspiration for his toys from artists in Hong Kong and Japan...
...Muslims may object to the sugges-tion that they are berserk bombers, but their recent reaction to the Danish cartoons would seem to prove the point. Steve Geller Berkeley, California, U.S. Muslims around the world were rightly disturbed by the cartoons of Muhammad. In the name of free speech, Westerners have been insulting our religion for too long. But our reaction should comply with the teachings of the Koran. We should follow the noble ways of Muhammad instead of engaging in violent protest. Jalal Ud Din Lahore...
STEVE GELLER Berkeley, Calif...
...Harvard is also contending for the services of Saidiya V. Hartman, who is an associate professor of English at Berkeley, Gates said...