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U.C. Berkeley's College Republicans' president explains why they are hosting a bake sale with prices based on race.
It's meant to be racist, and it's meant to be discriminatory.
More than 150 students at the University of California at Berkeley took over a campus building Thursday to protest a proposed 81% increase in tuition fees, university officials said.
How do you change the world? How do you release an idea into the air, an idea so potent that it alters the way we all behave, rewrites laws, makes us see that imbalance, whether personal or geopolitical, stems from one fundamental cause?
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A paraplegic takes his first steps since 2007 with the aid of an exoskeleton across his graduation stage.
Austin Whitney is walking proof that determination -- combined with creative ingenuity -- can turn a seemingly impossible idea into a reality.
Ethnic Tibetans' ability to thrive in high altitudes with low oxygen is the fastest genetic change ever observed in humans, according to a study published Friday in the journal Science.
I mentor a student who is a senior in a low-performing high school. About 50 percent of the students at his school drop out, while less than 25 percent go to college. His parents didn't graduate from high school, and his father earns about $14,000 a year. His grade point average is good enough to qualify him for admission at a few University of California schools.
Of all the changes in the American economy over the past 18 months, perhaps the most startling has been the rapid collapse of the major car manufacturers.
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Thelma Gutierrez reports that despite student protests the University of California will hike tuition by 32 percent.
Protesters of a tuition hike at University of California campuses stood their ground into Friday night, with 41 demonstrators at UC Berkeley cited for trespassing after their takeover of a campus building.
Many Americans love living in university towns, especially ones with big-time college football teams. One of the surprising attractions of these places is that they can be very affordable.
Last autumn I took time off to go back to school. The timing turned out to be just right: My American economic history course at the University of California at Berkeley got to the Great Depression in early October, around the time everyone became convinced we were about to have another one.
The Hayward earthquake fault line runs directly under Memorial Stadium in Berkeley. But there was no seismic shift there on Saturday evening.
When Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley in 1971, she wasn't trying to start a food revolution. But long before buzzwords like organic and locavore entered the popular lexicon, she was preaching the gospel of sustainable food to her customers.
One is a freelance journalist who intended to cover elections in Iraq's Kurdistan region. Another also has been trying her hand at reporting, and the third is a friend who shared their love of travel.
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Who are the three Americans missing in Iran? CNN's Dan Simon reports.
Iran confirmed Tuesday the arrest of three American hikers who crossed into the country from neighboring Iraq and said they have been charged with "illegal entry," a semi-official news agency reported.
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CNN's Susan Candiotti follows the sequence of events that lead to the detention of three Americans in Iran.
Are you getting enough sleep? For years, Cynthia McKay wasn't.
Firefighters took advantage of cooler temperatures and higher humidity overnight to help containin a blaze burning through the mountains in Santa Barbara County, Calif.
The Berkeley City Council voted early Wednesday to rescind a previous vote that said Marine recruiters are "not welcome in this city," but held tight to its anti-war stance.
Military supporters descended on Berkeley early Tuesday, demanding the famously liberal California college town rescind its vote that says Marine recruiters are "not welcome in this city."
Berkeley, the famously liberal college town in California, has taken aim at Marine recruiters, saying they are "not welcome in our city."
What's it really take to parent a preschooler? It's pretty simple, once you realize what kids this age can and can't do (and what sets them off and what keeps them happy!). Here are seven qualities that make it much easier to manage all that, and why they're so crucial when you've got an independent-minded, boundary-testing picky eater on your hands.
Ann Cooper is on a one-woman whirlwind campaign to change the way kids eat in schools. "We're killing our kids with food," she says.
Nanotubes, sheets of carbon one atom thick rolled up into a cylinder 10,000 times thinner than a human hair, may someday replace silicon chips. What can they do now? Pick up FM and AM signals, as Berkeley scientists demonstrated with a radio 100 billion times smaller than the old RCAs.
A reporter who can see the California wildfires from his home asks why it's so hard for people to recognize the danger
Despite the ubiquity of Starbucks, only about one out of six Americans drink specialty coffee on a daily basis, according to the National Coffee Association. To Patrick O'Dea, that smells like opportunity. For the past five years, the former Pringles salesman has run Peet's Coffee & Tea, a brand revered by coffee snobs but unknown in large swaths of the country.
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At last, solar energy is big enough and cheap enough to power electrical grids. Business 2.0 features the latest projects under the sun.
Every fall the nation's best beer-tasting room is at Denver's Great American Beer Festival. Here are three little guys who won gold medals.By Matthew Terranova, FSB Magazine
Considering a remodeling project to boost the value of your home? Before you drop $40,000 or more on a new kitchen or master bath, consider the newcomer on the renovation block: a rooftop solar-power system that not only will lower your overhead costs and insulate you from a volatile energy market but will likely add just as much to your home value over the long haul.
I am a 44-year-old woman who grew up in Berkeley who has never once voted for a Republican, or crossed a picket line, or failed to send in a small check when the Doctors Without Borders envelope showed up. I believe that we should not have invaded Iraq, that we should have signed the Kyoto treaty, that the Starr Report was, in part, the result of a vast right-wing conspiracy. I believe that poverty is our most pressing issue and that we should be pouring money and energy into its eradication. I believe that allowing migrant women and children to die of thirst in American deserts is a moral transgression that will stain us forever.
Joshua Michels could easily get toothpaste at the Walgreens near his San Francisco apartment. Instead, he usually buys it at Pharmaca, an alternative drugstore where shoppers can get their Lipitor ...
Dr. David Olson has had patients in a remote region between Armenia and Azerbaijan. He has treated people in the breakaway Georgian republic of Abkhazia near the Black Sea and in a gulag prison hospital in Siberia. He has had patients in a northwest Uganda town called Arua.
If you're dreaming of one last getaway while the weather is still nice, dwindling crowds and low airfares make this a good time to plan that trip.
Rock & roll is about horrifying your parents, and nothing sends Mom and Dad up a tree faster than devil worship. That partly explains the Satanic imagery in a lot of rock music. In 1967 the Rolling...
How often do you say "Whoops!" about your investing decisions? I've been kicking myself lately over a mistake that I'll bet you've made too. My 401(k), I've come to realize, is a big, fat tax mess....
How often do you say Whoops! about your investing decisions? I've been kicking myself lately over a mistake that I'll bet you've made too. My 401(k), I've come to realize, is a big, fat tax mess.
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As an added bonus to returning to campus this fall, more than 80,000 college students at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Minnesota will get a hefty monthly discount with RealNetworks' online music store.
The Free Speech Movement that began in Berkeley in 1964 is credited with inspiring the vast number of anti-Vietnam war protests in the '60s.
Editor's note: As part of our coverage of the 2004 election season, CNN.com is sending correspondents to the colleges where they studied to report on issues affecting today's young voters. In this edition, Meriah Doty returns to her alma mater, University of California at Berkeley.
It's the kind of record that would do almost any team proud: For 14 of the past 17 years, the Alpha Tilts large-cap stock fund managed by Barclays Global Investors in San Francisco has beaten the ...
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Even Dirty Harry likes clean energy. Three years ago, with the California energy crisis in full swing, Clint Eastwood was looking for a "clean" energy source for his Tehama Golf Club in Carmel, Cal...
By the time a visitor to the Bayer drug plant in Berkeley is allowed to step onto the factory floor, he makes a bunny-suited microchip worker look like a slob. Among the exotic raiment he has to pu...
AFTER THE FIRE
Unless you've been living in (or hugging) a tree, you know the country has faced a double whammy this year: a tech disaster and an energy crisis. Here are four companies that have weathered the fir...
Within the compound's high walls, people laze on hammocks strung between pine trees. Others pump iron in the gym, practice their jump shot on the gleaming basketball court, or hang around the putti...
Go ahead, read this column. It won't cost you anything more than the $4.95 you paid for the magazine. You don't even have to buy it: just borrow someone else's, or read it at the dentist's, or phot...
Baby-boomers have ushered in most every major trend over the past 50 years. But it was their grandparents who initiated the most radical demographic change of the past half-century--a dramatic decl...
What startup in its right mind would break off discussions with venture capital big shots Kleiner Perkins and Accel Partners to instead throw in its lot with a bunch of loosely affiliated individua...
Diners at Chez Panisse back in 1971 were in on history in the making. Twenty-seven years later, the emphasis on fresh, local food and ever-changing menus that chef Alice Waters (pictured above) pio...
Friends, let's start with the really important stuff: This is an urgent medical bulletin to anybody out there who falls asleep in meetings, or knows someone who falls asleep in meetings, or just ge...
Now, amid the recent flood of work-and-family pronouncements, comes perhaps the most stunning of all: The reason that families have become so time starved, so strung out, so overwrought, is that pa...
One reason following technology is so much fun is that every once in a while a really exciting product comes along to sweep everybody up in a collective enthusiasm. People start talking about it as...
So you've landed the vice presidency, you're spending tons of your company's money at the bistro of the moment, and the maitre d' still sniffs and seats you near the busboy. Now what? For those of ...
WOULDN'T IT BE NICE if you could check the total value of your investments in an instant and see precisely what returns you've been earning? It sounds like a job that computers were born to do. And...
Ever wake up in the wee hours with your mind churning along the following lines: Your kids are now how old? Boy, college isn't that far off. Assuming an annual inflation rate of 3% or 4%, within te...
If you think investing style refers to the clothes that money managers wear to the office, you'd better keep reading. In the fund business, style tells you the types of stocks a portfolio generally...
We recently ran an ''Only in America'' item about various phrases (e.g., ''walk-in closet'') now viewed as verboten in real-estate ads because they might violate federal or state fair-housing legis...
Yes, friends, the dog days are back, so once again we all get to snooze over the most utterly boring and unsurprising headlines of the past 12 months. In selecting the entries for this fourth annua...
A social problem rated less urgent than urban poverty and yet more serious than infected hangnails is the quality of the jokes on the Internet. Wait. Does one really have to explain what the Intern...
It may look like a sidewalk with a slight incline, but for personal injury lawyers, it's a gold mine. ((New York City)) has been sued at least 11 times by people falling on the sidewalk in front of...
Hollywood is running out of bad guys. With the Cold War's end and increasing opposition to ethnic villains, filmmakers are under new pressure to craft politically correct criminals. Says writer-dir...
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA -- Ever since the University of California at Berkeley expelled the ''Naked Guy'' last winter, life hasn't been the same in this | . . . college town. It's been even more revea...
Want an extremely volatile stock that plunged 39% in the past five months and probably won't turn a profit for two more years? If so, you've come to the right place. Oh, one more thing: The company...
Some years back, when our son was a student at Oberlin College in Ohio, he had a curious annual ritual. At a certain time of day, on a certain day in the year, he would march up to a desk in the st...
HOW TO USE OUR FUND TABLES As the article on page 56 makes clear, mutual fund performance tends to run in cycles: Fund managers excel when the kinds of investments they favor are in fashion and lan...
It was another bad year for media folks engaged in the unending game -- at least, nobody knows how to stop it -- of trying to figure out which labels are currently considered socially acceptable by...
Faced with a stagnant job scene, unemployed managers, career changers, and freshly minted college graduates are finding new ways to hunt for work. Big - corporations still look good to many, who fl...
Okay, you've finally come to terms with the implausible fact that engineers can squeeze a million transistors onto a silicon chip the size of your thumbnail. But are you ready for really eensy mach...
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA -- City officials . . . declared October 12 ''Indigenous Peoples Day . . .'' The city also declared 1992, the 500th anniversary of Columbus's landing in America, ''The Year of ...
WHO ever said that recessions are bad for stocks? In 1991 corporate earnings went south, but stock prices headed north. The Dow slammed through the elusive 3000 barrier early in the year, lifted by...
Being somewhat prejudiced against conspiracy theories, we were a bit slow to embrace one that surfaced last year in the course of the never-ending racial rows over college admissions. The theory pe...
Katya Komisaruk, the Berkeley peace activist . . . has marched out of prison -- and straight toward some of the best law schools in the country. Stanford ((and others)) approved her application whi...
From high atop San Francisco's fashionable Mark Hopkins Intercontinental Hotel comes the midnight cry of the wedding party: ''Bring on the tequila poppers, waiter! We want tequila poppers!'' It was...
Four top business schools will graduate some heavy hitters this year -- their own deans. The B-school heads at Wharton, Stanford, Berkeley, and Dartmouth, who all took office in 1983, plan to turn ...
Hey, remember the Free Speech Movement? That was the great crusade at Berkeley in 1964 -- the New Left uprising that initiated the great student revolution of the Sixties. It seems hard to credit t...
OAKLAND -- Owners of a ((four-unit apartment house)) filed suit against the city of Berkeley, . . . saying that its rent-control ordinance denies them the right to go out of business. John and Kath...
Ugly incidents of racial violence, threats, harassment, and open insults to minority students on various college campuses across the country have attracted increasing press attention in recent year...
It had to happen, so now it is happening. Racial preference in college admissions, legitimized by the Supreme Court's infamous Bakke decision in 1978, is now being used against the wrong people. Ev...
Tonight marks the opening night of a new and unusual kind of business . . . Protectel . . . guarantees that it will have condoms or sponges delivered to your door less than 15 minutes after receivi...
Judging by the roaring adventure-travel field, not all Americans fear terrorism -- or anything else, for that matter. Adventure sales grew from $5 million 10 years ago to $250 million last year. So...
Nowhere is rent control more bitterly debated than in New York City, especially in Manhattan, where roughly 420,000 of the borough's 650,000 apartment units are subject to rent restrictions. The cl...
Under Berkeley's rental laws, a tenant can be evicted to allow the owner to live in the tenant's house or apartment. Rent control makes many single-family homes more valuable as owner-occupied hous...
BERKELEY, Calif. -- A federal civil rights official has complained to the University of California at Berkeley that its course catalogue contains sexist language . . . The official, Paul D. Grossma...
Reading the latest news from Berkeley, California, the other day, we suddenly found ourselves thinking of a man who resides in that community and is almost certainly still unmarried. We know about ...
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