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...growing number of key experts threatening to stay away if Mbeki's government insists on indulging the views of dissident academics whose views were debated and discounted a decade ago in the U.S. To the consternation of South Africa's own medical and AIDS-activist community, Mbeki has invited Berkeley molecular biologist Peter Duesberg and his colleague David Resnick - who maintain that the HIV virus is harmless and not the cause of AIDS - to serve on a panel advising the government over whether to make AZT available to pregnant HIV carriers. Duesberg and Resnick argue that the high incidence...
...panel along with Mineta, a former member of Congress, were L. Ling-Chi Wang, chair of the ethnic studies department at the University of California, Berkeley, and Alan K. Simpson, director of the Institute of Politics and a longtime friend of Mineta...
...schools a chance to get a college education. Proponents of affirmative action, however, argue that this approach removes minority students from the top state universities. In California, for example, minority college enrollment has remained steady under the new system, but has tailed off at top schools, such as UC Berkeley and UCLA, and in the most competitive graduate programs. This phenomenon is known as "cascading" - dropping large chunks of minority populations down from top-tier to medium- and lower-tier schools. But it also has its upside: Students don't require as many remedial courses to help them catch...
Does having a short index finger mean you're gay? A new study comparing index and ring-finger lengths says this ratio indicates how much testosterone people were exposed to in the womb, which may influence sexual orientation. Dr. Marc Breedlove, the aptly named Berkeley psychologist who's searching for the anatomical basis of sexual preference, reports that lesbians tend to have substantially shorter index fingers, a trait more common among men than women. Really short index fingers on men don't mean they're gay or straight, the study says; it means they probably have lots of older brothers...
...large portion of the San Francisco Bay Area will jump more than 3 ft. in less than 30 sec., shaking the ground for perhaps 100 miles and triggering an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7. Bridges will buckle. Apartment buildings will pancake. The dorms at the University of California, Berkeley, will roll like barrels on a wave. Water, power and transportation lines will be cut. The subway that runs under the bay could be a death trap. By the time the dust settles, more than 100,000 people will be homeless. Economic losses will total at least $35 billion...