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Since Ann and Ray Ginger divorced in 1957, she has continued her work as an author, lawyer and activist, authoring and editing 22 books on civil rights and law, including, most recently Nuclear Weapons Are Illegal. She is currently president of the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute in Berkeley, California...
DIED. DAVID BROWER, 88, uncompromising environmental activist; of cancer; in Berkeley, Calif. Brower helped transform the Sierra Club from a 7,000-member club into one of America's most influential environmental groups. He later founded Friends of the Earth, the League of Conservation Voters and the Earth Island Institute. He resigned in protest from the Sierra Club board several times. "The world is burning," he said, "and all I hear from them is the music of violins...
...Thanks again to Joe Eskenazi and the Berkeley Daily Californian for the idea...
...research at the relatively modest 3.5-m telescope at Lick Observatory in California. Then, in 1996, he moved most of his project to the Keck, with dramatic results. "We've discovered 35 planets orbiting sunlike stars so far," says Marcy, who holds joint appointments at the University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco State University. "And the majority of them have been with the Keck...
...1960s, when I was a student at Berkeley, I took breaks by traveling down to Los Angeles to sit in the audience of the Steve Allen Show. This was the second of two syndicated late-night shows that Allen hosted through the '60s, a nightly, 90-minute showcase for his rowdy, improvisational comedy. Shows would typically open with some unscripted bit, and one night everyone in the audience was handed foam-rubber bricks and bats and told that, in honor of the campus unrest making headlines, when Steve ventured into the crowd, we'd erupt into an "audience riot." Since...