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...Story series (available in some U.S. video stores), are comedy fantasies, but they are also documentaries of the pain a great star will endure to please his audience. They have something else: a bracing athletic grace. The fights are as exuberant and abstract as the dances in a Busby Berkeley musical. And Chan is a superb physical artist, whether leaping off cliffs or hanging from a bus by an umbrella handle. As novelist Donald E. Westlake put it, "Jackie Chan is Fred Astaire, and the world is Ginger Rogers...
...SELF-DESCRIBED yuppie, more interested in acquiring houses and cars than in pursuing causes. But Jeff Getty's life changed forever in 1985, when he learned he was HIV positive. Getty, now 38, retired from his job as an administrative analyst at the University of California, Berkeley, a few years later and devoted himself to AIDS activism. He devoured immunology textbooks, traveled to Mexico to bring back experimental therapies to the U.S. and joined protests demanding the government speed approval of new AIDS drugs...
...they are beautiful. Suppose our vision were limited to the range of the human eye and the resources spent on seeing farther into the universe had been devoted to improving our own speck of cosmic dust, the earth. How much worse off would we be? JAMES H. REYNOLDS Berkeley, California...
Over the summer, Erwin pondered this problem with two paleontologist friends, David Jablonski of the University of Chicago and James Valentine of the University of California, Berkeley. Primitive multicelled organisms like jellyfish, they reasoned, have three so-called homeotic homeobox genes, or Hox genes, which serve as the master controllers of embryonic development. Flatworms have four, arthropods like fruit flies have eight, and the primitive chordate Branchiostoma (formerly known as Amphioxus) has 10. So around 550 million years ago, Erwin and the others believe, some wormlike creature expanded its Hox cluster, bringing the number of genes up to six. Then...
...think that it's great that they're trying to get an ethnic studies program started," said Joy C. Elizondo, a graduate student of Romance languages who graduated from Berkeley, which is seen as a national leader in ethnic studies...