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...fossil find may have implications for the controversial theory proposed by a team headed by Physicist Luis Alvarez and his son Geologist Walter Alvarez, both of the University of California, Berkeley. In their view, at least some of the great extinctions, especially the one that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, were caused by the effects of giant comets or asteroids smashing into the earth. The impacts, they suggest, spewed debris into the atmosphere, obscuring the sun, causing temperatures to drop and bringing on a long "winter" that killed much of the life on earth. But, at least...
Simmons did graduate work at Harvard, Howard University and the University of California at Berkeley, and he is currently an associate professor of architecture at Berkeley. Berkeley...
Seidman, who was the first woman president of The Crimson, is currently a graduate student in sociology at Berkeley. If elected she would be the youngest overseer ever to serve on the board
...takeover entrepreneurs." He adds sharply, "They do not create jobs. They do not add to the national wealth. They merely rearrange ownership interests and shift risk from shareholders to creditors." Concurs Peter Jones, retired senior vice president of Levi Strauss and now an instructor at the University of California, Berkeley: "While we in America devote a major part of our material and human resources to promoting and fighting mergers and hostile takeovers, we are becoming less and less competitive with Japan and all the new Japans...
...large beneficial to the U.S. economy, however, the current merger frenzy seems to have gone too far. Takeover strategy is taking up vast amounts of management's energy and attention. Instead of running their businesses, some executives are spending their time worrying about financial plays. Says Berkeley's Jones: "As considerable as is the drain of money and other resources into mergers and acquisitions, I regard the drain on management time and talent as perhaps even more important...