Word: california
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Price, now a second year law student at the University of California at Berkeley, and her attorney were both unavailable for comment yesterday...
Opposed by many of the state's educators, the Carey decision was a victory for student and parent groups backed by Ralph Nader, who has encouraged "truth in testing" campaigns in California, Colorado, Texas, Ohio and Massachusetts, as well as New York. Carey's move gave Nader his first signal victory, and last week Nader called the decision a "turning point in the national campaign to subject the testing industry to public scrutiny," adding, "ETS has been judging the worth of students for years. Now the students are getting a chance to judge the worth...
...account for the placebo's magic, doctors have resorted to virtually every kind of psychological and physical explanation. No luck. Drs. Jon D. Levine and Howard I. Fields and Oral Surgeon Newton C. Gordon, all of the University of California in San Francisco, may have hit upon an answer. In an experiment involving dental patients having molars extracted, they gave them either a placebo or the drug naloxone, which is known to block the effects of endorphin, a morphine-like pain reliever produced by the brain itself...
That shortage may soon be eased. In the most dramatic display yet of the controversial genetic engineering technique known as recombinant DNA, independent teams at the University of California in San Francisco and at a small commercial research firm, Genentech Inc., in nearby Palo Alto, used human pituitary tissue to construct the gene, or DNA segment, responsible for the production of somatotropin. They then implanted it in the genetic machinery of a laboratory strain of the common intestinal bacterium Escherichia coli. The gene splicing worked: the re-engineered bugs began to make...
...school a month and for winning the battle to retain tax-exempt status for parochial schools. In the 1960s, however, the "brick-and-mortar priest" came under fire from liberal Catholics for his foot-dragging attitude toward the reforms of Vatican Council II and his failure to support California's open-housing laws and civil rights in general...