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  1. Organically Conservative?Read the original story

    56 min ago | ChowHound

    ... good for the environment, anticorporate. But in the Boston Globe , John Schwenkler, a doctoral candidate at UC Berkeley, maintains that Alice Waters and her ilk are actually espousing a profoundly conservative idea of food . After all, modern food ...

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  2. Berkeley won't appeal ruling on training centerRead the original story

    2 hrs ago | North County Times

    BERKELEY, Calif. - Berkeley officials won't be appealing a judge's ruling that will allow UC Berkeley to start building a sports training center next to Memorial Stadium.

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  3. Boys and girls equal in math scores studyRead the original story

    4 hrs ago | Times Union

    ... om pursuing math-oriented fields. "There may not be any one factor," said Kessel, a consultant in math education in Berkeley, Calif. "It's probably more complicated."

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  4. Science sites for familiesRead the original story

    12 hrs ago | SFGate

    ... an emphasis on science activities for kids: Lawrence Hall of Science Location: Centennial Drive at Stadium Way, Berkeley What's new: Along with dozens of older exhibits (and possibly the greatest view of any children's museum in the world), the ...

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  5. Dangerous Liouville wave - exactly marginal but non-conformal deformationRead the original story

    21 hrs ago | Journal of High Energy Physics latest papers

    1 Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A. 2 Theoretical Physics Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A. E-mail: cmho@berkeley.edu Abstract. We give a non-trivially interacting field ...

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  6. BART to begin modernizing of stationsRead the original story

    5 hrs ago | Contra Costa Times

    ... walls, windows and other architectural changes at four stations, including Pleasant Hill, Union City, Ashby in Berkeley and Powell Street in San Francisco. Other stations will be modified later. At Pleasant Hill, more windows and lower lights will ...

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  7. Wallace Baine: Nude for thought: Santa Cruz continues to shock worldRead the original story

    5 hrs ago | Santa Cruz Sentinel

    ... monstrous megaphone of Rush Limbaugh who's always looking for an opportunity to throw cheap shots at places like Berkeley and Santa Cruz. In a better world, a story like this would expose us all to the brutal reality of people walking the streets, ... 38 comments

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  8. Cal in the Capitol Gives Students a Bird's Eye View of State Politics and Public PolicyRead the original story

    5 hrs ago | California Progress Report

    By Kyle Samia Reporter California Progress Report UC Berkeley offers students, curious about the goings-on of state government and public policy, the Cal in Sacramento Internship Program.

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  9. Bay Area Singles and Sacramento Singles Party Salutes the Olympic SpiritRead the original story

    12 hrs ago | PRWeb

    July 25, 2008 -- 'Go for the Gold.' That's the theme of two singles parties sponsored by Professionals Guild, 'the Ultimate Singles Party.' Appropriately, both venues contain a reference to 'Gold' in their ...

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  10. Study: Girls just as good at mathRead the original story

    6 hrs ago | Kansas.com

    ... om pursuing math-oriented fields. "There may not be any one factor," said Kessel, a consultant in math education in Berkeley, Calif. "It's probably more complicated."

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    Related Topix: Standardized Testing, Education, Harvard University, Psychology, Science, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont Consortium of Colleges

  11. Study buries notion that girls are inferior at mathematicsRead the original story

    7 hrs ago | LA Daily News

    ... we do know that women can do math," said Marcia Linn, an education professor at the University of California at Berkeley and co-author of the report, published in today's issue of "Science." The study found no difference between boys and girls on ... 4 comments

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  12. Equal sign of the timesRead the original story

    8 hrs ago | Carlsbad Current-Argus

    ... pursuing math-oriented fields. "There may not be any one factor," said Kessel, a consultant in math education in Berkeley, Calif. "It's probably more complicated." As Hyde and her colleagues looked across the test data, they found something they ...

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  13. Berkeley Halts Challenge To Sports Facility PlanRead the original story

    10 hrs ago | KTVU

    The city of Berkeley decided Thursday night it will suspend its legal challenge to UC Berkeley's plan to build a new athletic facility on land where a grove of oak trees now stands.

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  14. Hayward Dna leads to arrest in 1996 rape caseRead the original story

    11 hrs ago | SF Gate

    ... evidence at the scene, said Dudek, declining to elaborate. Samples were sent to the state Justice Department lab in Berkeley. It wasn't until June of this year that investigators were told there was a match to Johnston, Dudek said. Authorities ...

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  15. Numbers show girls as good at math as boysRead the original story

    11 hrs ago | San Francisco Chronicle

    ... coursework and ultimately in the workforce. "Today, we do know that women can do math," said Marcia Linn, UC Berkeley education professor and co-author of the report, published in today's issue of the journal Science. Decades ago, girls took fewer ...

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  16. Look in the sky! See octopi flyRead the original story

    11 hrs ago | Inside Bay Area

    John Khan, 55, of Concord takes control of one of his two giant octopus kites that he's preparing to fly over Cesar Chavez Park for the Berkeley Kite Festival in Berkeley, Calif., on Tuesday, July 22, 2008.

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  17. Berkeley City Council deadlocked, will not appeal judge s ruling in sports training centerRead the original story

    11 hrs ago | Inside Bay Area

    Even after more than 50 emotionally wrought people begged and pleaded with the City Council to appeal a judge's recent ruling that will allow UC Berkeley to start building its sports training center, the ...

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  18. Tucson reject sparks Glendale's growthRead the original story

    11 hrs ago | Arizona Daily Star

    ... businessman, impressed the council as excited and energetic. But ultimately, Tucson's elected leaders turned to Berkeley, Calif., manager Jim Keene, passing up Beasley and calling him too young and inexperienced to run a city the size of Tucson. ...

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  19. Proposal to rename peak after Sierra Club leader ignites debateRead the original story

    12 hrs ago | Sacramento Bee Newspaper

    ... glacial peaks like North Palisade, which at 14,242 feet is the fourth-tallest in California. Brower, who died in Berkeley eight years ago, was long associated with efforts to protect Yosemite National Park and other California wilderness areas. He ...

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  20. Date LinesRead the original story

    12 hrs ago | SFGate

    Murakami in Berkeley Haruki Murakami , the internationally acclaimed Japanese novelist, writer and translator, will give a reading and talk at 8 p.m. Oct.

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