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She was 58. Judge Miller was found a little after 6 p.m., Oakland police said. The cause of her death has not been determined.

This amazing video clip features several very famous people who managed to turn failure to success in a most inspiring way. And it's all done in one minute! Links to another great essay on turning failure to success and other highly inspiring videos are also given.

Fat Pig: Drama. By Neil LaBute. Directed by Barbara Damashek. With Jud Williford, Liliane Klein, Alexandra Creighton and Peter Ruocco.

We had dinner today at Kirala , for the first time. Wow, we were very happy. We had several types of robata , and several types of sushi .

Seattle Police Capt. Mike Meehan has been hired as the Berkeley, Calif., police chief.

At U.C. Berkeley's School of Law, all students take the usual courses in torts and contracts.

Two words drive Yiddish culture expert Zehavit Stern up the wall: "nostalgia" and "revival." Both terms often come up when describing the current state of Yiddish.

"The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being." What would you do if you were ordered by authority to inflict pain or to treat prisoners badly? You may be surprised at what most people did in the electric shock experiment and the Stanford prison experiment. Read this article and watch the eye-opening videos to find out how easily people can be controlled -- and how we can change this.

Long-Term Follow-Up Of Children Enrolled In Mexico's Conditional Cash Transfer Program 'Oportunidades' An article published Online First and in a future edition of The Lancet reports that long-term follow-up of children enrolled in Mexico's conditional cash transfer program 'Oportunidades' has shown a range of benefits for child health and ...

Not all burger joints are created equal. This one's a two-story sit-down place on Berkeley's trendy College Avenue.

Freshman anthropology student Marina Gavryushkina practices her parkour at the University of California outside the Doe Library on the university campus, Thursday, Oct.

Homes were burglarized in the following locations: the 1600 block of 10th Street; the 2700 block of Ellsworth Street; the 2700 block of Wallace Street; the 2800 block of California Street; the 1000 block of Virginia Street; and the 1100 block of Hopkins Street.

Happy Day of the Dead and merry return to Pacific Standard Time. I find it fitting these events should coincide because I'm sure that, if polled, the dead would favor earlier evenings, hands down.

I am an avid Kiva fan. Who? What is Kiva? Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend to unique entrepreneurs around the globe.

RICHARD SCHWARTZ'S day job is building houses, but his passion is local history, especially Berkeley history around the turn of the last century.

A new, innovative form of radiation based on verified scientific facts will be available to patients all over Europe within the next few decades.

Trick or treat came early to a Berkeley residence, where approximately one ton of pumpkins were stolen from the front lawn Wednesday.

Is the swine flu vaccine safe? An article in this week's Time magazine reports that German politicians are being given a swine flu vaccine that is more safe than that provided for the general population.

One version of the swine flu vaccine provided to most Germans has side effects which "are not yet entirely known." A safer version has been reserved for German politicians. Many Americans are being injected with the vaccine which has not been fully tested.

Approximately 600 people from across California came to UC Berkeley today for a conference aimed at organizing statewide action to reverse the effects of state budget cuts to public education.

For the past year, Carmen Osuna-Gibson has seen the homeless people she works with turn their lives around, from eating out of trash cans to holding jobs, from self-mutilation to calculus classes.