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...take race or gender into account in distributing its benefits. This would wipe out a host of programs in California, from magnet schools to science tutoring for girls to road-paving set-asides, and would significantly decrease the minority presence at the University of California's two flagship schools, Berkeley and ucla. Other states, or even Congress, may be inspired to copy the initiative. Its passage could influence future Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action, if the longstanding suspicion is true that the Court takes note of election returns. Affirmative action might also become a "wedge issue" in national politics...
Washington is also a board member for the Summer Search Foundation, which sends talented high school students from under-represented backgrounds to summer internships. He went through the program while he was in high school in Berkeley, Calif...
Also set for November is the trial of a consumer-fraud lawsuit filed by the California Nurses Association against the 508-bed Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley. The suit claims that the hospital enforced a gag rule on its employees to "cover up the essential nature" of its patient-focused care plan. Viki Ardito, Alta Bates' acting vice president of patient-care services, calls the lawsuit frivolous: "It's about maintaining the union's people and their dues...
...maybe not. An experiment described in the current Nature suggests that the huge carnivore did indeed have the most powerful bite in history. Researchers led by Gregory Erickson, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, figured that if they could reproduce the T. rex bite marks found in fossilized Triceratops bones, they could deduce how much force had been needed to make them. So with the help of Stanford biomechanical engineers they crafted a false Tyrannosaurus tooth out of bronze and aluminum, then mounted it in a guillotine-like device and slammed it into the pelvic bone...
During his string of bombings, the Unabomer attacked Yale University and the University of California at Berkeley, among other academic institutions. Last year, two Nobel Prize winners living in the Boston area reported that they received letters from the Unabomer...