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...Things happen in Berkeley that are seen as being quirky," Bates tells TIME. "But what we know is, those ideas that percolate in Berkeley today end up being conventional wisdom in the rest of the country tomorrow." Berkeley, after all, was the first city to start curbside recycling, ban Styrofoam and desegregate its public schools without a court order. Berkeley also took the lead in calling for municipalities to divest from South Africa during the apartheid...
...Harvard refuses to use styrofoam cups for environmental reasons. Most of the fancier dome lids are designed to fit styrofoam cups...
...days the two men visited the set--Howard Hughes' old airplane hangar near Marina del Rey, Calif.--McLoughlin, who had 30 surgeries that left braces on his legs and an open wound on his left hip, stayed away from the 65-ft. mound of Styrofoam beams and cargo boxes meant to represent ground zero. "I hate getting upset," he says. As soot-covered extras in police and military uniforms milled around, Jimeno was reduced to tears by the sight of the too-lifelike rubble pile. "I survived for a reason," he says. "We, as a country, have a short attention...
...really enjoy chemistry. When I first took the class, I didn't think I knew how to study it. It just seemed like a lot of memorizing and equations and all that. But it's really cool. You get to blow stuff up. Last class, we took a Styrofoam cup and put it next to a vacuum cleaner, and it sucked all the air out of it, and it became like a midget Styrofoam cup. We also get to work with dangerous chemicals, so that class is pretty...
...raised so much money. It was really romantic when this one guy put 250 dollars for Hannah Ahn,” said Victoria E. Clark ’08. Following the auction, Orange Crush, an 80’s styled dance party band provided music while revelers danced below Styrofoam hearts and multi-colored lights.Organizers and security involved with Friday’s party strove to make sure that the event was safe, as previous pub nights have filled Loker Commons to the legal limit. Ilya Luvish, who is Memorial Hall’s representative and has been working there...