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Prep boys swimming: Gillette's Dillinger is California bound
Casper Star-Tribune Online
CALI BOUND: Dillinger is a University of California Berkeley recruit. The Bears are the defending national champions. HE SAID IT: "Getting an opportunity to go be a part of that tradition is, it's phenomenal." -- Dillinger. If you ignore the times and ...

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Telepathy, it's here
Times of India
"This is huge for patients who have damage to their speech mechanisms because of a stroke or Lou Gehrig's disease and can't speak," said Professor Robert Knight, one of the researchers from the University of California at Berkeley.
Scientists decode brain waves to eavesdrop on what we hearUC Berkeley
Scientists Eavesdrop Inside the MindABC News
Berkeley boffins crack brain wave codeRegister
Tecca -DailyTech -ZME Science
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FOXSports.com
Joe Pasternack issues statement
ESPN
BERKELEY, Calif. -- Arizona assistant coach Joe Pasternack says he didn't deliberately make contact with California's Jorge Gutierrez after he fell into the Wildcats' bench during Thursday night's game. Gutierrez yelled at Pasternack, ...
UA assistant comments on alleged kickingFS Arizona

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New York Times
Taking More Seats on Campus, Foreigners Also Pay the Freight
New York Times
... at flagship public universities across the nation: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and University of California campuses in Berkeley and Los Angeles all had at least 10 percent foreign freshmen this academic year, more than twice that of five years ago.

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Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue, Hit by Hard Times, Needs a Makeover
New York Times
Many University of California, Berkeley, students avoid the area. Though the campus sits on the north end of Telegraph, some students visit the avenue only when they want an inexpensive snack, according to a recent survey. They are intimidated by the ...

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Lost Malcolm X Speech Heard Again 50 Years Later
NPR
The university was worried about possible violence and about upsetting the NAACP, which had pressured other universities — including the University of California, Berkeley and Howard, one of the oldest historically black universities in America — to ...

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Carlson School eyes two U alumni
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Randall S. Peterson earned a degree in animal science and agricultural economics in 1986 and a master's in educational psychology in 1990 from the U. He holds a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley. At least one other candidate has ...

A Chance to See Disabilities as Assets
New York Times
MANY people know of Berkeley, Calif., as the birthplace, in the 1960's, of the Free Speech Movement. Fewer people know that Berkeley also played a major role in the disability rights movement. It was here, also in the '60s, that Ed Roberts — a student ...

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Do Manufacturers Need Special Treatment?
New York Times
So far, a persuasive case for a manufacturing policy remains to be made, while that for many other economic policies is well established. Christina D. Romer is an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and was the chairwoman of ...

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Telegraph Avenue: Home of Free Speech Movement, Needs a Makeover
The Bay Citizen
Many University of California, Berkeley, students avoid the area. Though the campus sits on the north end of Telegraph, some students visit the avenue only when they want an inexpensive snack, according to a recent survey. They are intimidated by the ...

California likely to experience the biggest political turnover in 20 years
Santa Cruz Sentinel
The California News Service is a journalism project of the University of California Washington Center and the UC Berkeley School of Journalism. E-mail the California News Service at cns@ucdc.edu.

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Kern bases vulnerable to defense cuts
Bakersfield Californian
"Research programs have huge societal benefits," said Dr. Shankar Sastry, dean of the College of Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. "But the pot of money that we compete for is reduced." Panetta announced broad plans for absorbing ...

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Small talk can be a big help
The Reporter
New research from the University of California Berkeley says daily doses of chitchat can actually prevent bad behaviour, exploitation and reduce stress levels. "Gossip gets a bad rap, but we're finding evidence that it plays a critical role in the ...
Gossip Can Be GoodThe Atlantic

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Christian Science Monitor
Let's fix jobs before we fix the deficit
Christian Science Monitor
Robert is chancellor's professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Clinton. He has written 13 books, including 'The Work of ...
America's Jobs Deficit: Why It's Still More Important than the Budget DeficitMarket Playground

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ABC News
Football Statistics Suggest Teams Should Go For It On Fourth Down
Huffington Post
Other analyses, such as a study revised in 2005 by David Romer, an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, agree that coaches should be more aggressive when the referee signals fourth down. Of course, statistics only speak to ...
Super Bowl Science: Are Football Coaches Irrational?Smithsonian (blog)

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Tech law school team wins championship
LubbockOnline.com
The team of third-year law students — Brandon Beck of Austin, Allie Hallmark of Midland and Elizabeth Hill of Lubbock — prevailed over the University of California-Berkeley School of Law in the final round. With the repeat win, Texas Tech became the ...

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New Research: Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex
GlobalNews.ca
Neuroscientist, Brian Pasley from the University of California, Berkeley did a detailed Q & A with Global News' Christina Cheng. He explains a new research technology study that is reconstructing speech from the human auditory cortex.

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TEDxBerkeley's 2012 Theme “Innovation” Kicks Off Third Year at Zellerbach Hall ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
Tapan Parikh: Assistant Professor at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. Neha Sangwan, MD: an Internal Medicine physician, she is also CEO and founder of Intuitive Intelligence, and acts as a corporate communication ...
TEDxBerkeley's 2012 Theme "Innovation" Kicks Off Third Year at Zellerbach Hall ...MarketWatch (press release)

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An Accounting of Komen's Impressive Financial Hypocrisy
Jezebel
Money's still going to the University of California at San Francisco, even though a seat belt-less shuttle bus led to the death of a professor last summer. And protesters who claim they were wrongly treated at the University of California-Berkeley are ...

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Kniphofia northiae a tower of powerful color
San Francisco Chronicle
These include San Francisco Botanical Garden (sfbotanicalgarden.org) and University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley (botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu). Grow in fertile, humus-rich well-drained soil in full sun to light shade.