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Born in 1933 in Shanghai, Chen grew up under the Japanese occupation of China, a frantic time unconducive to musical studies. After his family emigrated to the U.S. to flee the Chinese revolution, he began to study music at Berkeley. He got a masters in composition at Princeton, then waited on table in New York for three years. So it wasn't until ten years ago, at the age of thirty-two that Chen began to study conducting at the Geneva Conservatory. "I stayed two years in the class and when I finished I still didn't know...
Last week the wounded environmentalists lamely struggled to explain their polluted portfolios. Argued E.D.F.'s Berkeley director, Tom Graff: "We can't invest in companies doing environmentally beneficial things, companies in solar energy or scrap iron, for example. If we did, it would look like we were promoting our economic interest when we took a stand on an issue." Added Colburn Wilbur, executive secretary of the Sierra Club Foundation: "Every time we drive, fly or eat we are helping the polluters. We don't have a pure investment portfolio. I don't think we could...
Commoner's work relies heavily upon a test devised by Dr. Bruce Ames of the University of California at Berkeley. Ames found that certain carcinogens were capable of causing mutations in bacteria. This suggested to Ames the possibility of using mutagenicity, the ability to cause mutations, which can be determined simply and quickly, as a test for carcinogenicity...
President Bok convened an ad hoe Committee in May to consider Southern, William Shack, an associate professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley, and Ephraim Isaac, associate professor of Afro American Studies...
Died. Carl O. Sauer, 85, American geographer; in Berkeley, Calif. As chairman of the geography department of the University of California at Berkeley from 1923-54, Sauer impressed on his students the need to find "humane ways" to use earth's resources. Sauer was equally comfortable discussing ancient literature, leading expeditions to Baja California, or interviewing small farmers about soil erosion. His best-known books, Northern Mists and The Early Spanish Main, contended that Irish monks reached North America before Leif Ericson, and that Christopher Columbus had been an unstable governor of the West Indies, setting policies that nearly...