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...individual scientist symbolized the new maturity of this arcane art more than Herbert Boyer, 44, a curly-topped, rumpled-looking biochemist at the University of California at San Francisco. In the 1960s Boyer was taking part in antiwar protests in the streets of Berkeley. Last year he led a different type of demonstration: the parade of scientists who are taking gene engineering out of the laboratory and into the marketplace, where it promises a host of wonders, from new drugs and foodstuffs to pollution-gobbling bugs...
...abroad or to participate in the 12-College Exchange, of which Wellesley is a member. "Because Wellesley is single-sex and so isolated, everyone wants to get away at one time or another," says Jordan, who will probably spend next year at the University of California at Berkeley. "Wellesley is too mellow for me; I miss the 'real' college atmosphere of frats, football games and parties," she says...
...Riley said the eviction reflects a national trend in which "revolutionary bookstores across the country are facing similar attacks." He added that communist bookstores in Seattle, New York City and Berkeley, Calif., have recently faced eviction because "the ruling class feels itself threatened" by revolutionary literature...
...Princeton program is headed by Lieut. Colonel John Pope, 43, whose credits include a Ph.D. in education from the University of California at Berkeley and experience as a helicopter pilot in Viet Nam. Pope is quietly lobbying to restore academic credit to some ROTC courses. Although the faculty remains opposed, Pope argues: "If programs like dance, theater, painting and arts can go for credit, there should be room for credit courses in the cause and effect of war." Most oth er ROTC schools grant the courses at least some credit; Northwestern does so for about half of its Navy ROTC...
Nolo was founded in 1971 in a brown shingled house in Berkeley. Two Berkeley Law School graduates, Ralph Warner and Charles Sherman, emotionally and financially drained after three years as poverty lawyers, teamed up on a manual designed to take advantage of California's simplified divorce procedures. The result was How to Do Your Own Divorce in California, which has since sold 300,000 copies and may have saved its readers as much as $80 million in legal fees. Another big seller is California Tenants' Handbook (85,000 copies), which drew this letter from a disgruntled landlord...