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• Missing Rice student returns home, Berkeley police drop charges

  - 2008-08-27

  A Rice University student missing in Berkeley for eight months and later arrested on suspicion of thefts around UC Berkeley has flown home to Oklahoma after the Alameda County district attorney's office dropped all charges against him. "I reviewed the matter, looked at the totality of situation, and...

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• Diabetes project a vocation for Pacifica man

  - 2008-07-06

  Daniel Zoughbie met his Palestinian grandmother only once before she died of complications from diabetes because she couldn't get access to medical care. He was 5 at the time, but the way she died stayed with him for the rest of his life. Growing up...

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• Tree-sitters hang fast in Berkeley

  - 2008-06-29

  BERKELEY, Calif. -- In December 2006, protesters angry about campus expansion plans clambered into the branches of a threatened oak grove at the University of California, Berkeley. Since then, Democrats have chosen their first black presidential candidate, the housing market has taken a dive and gasoline prices have...

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• GOP targeting Berkeley over Marines vote

  - 2008-02-07

  Several Republicans in Congress are moving forward with an effort to strip Berkeley institutions of federal funds in retaliation for last week's City Council vote telling the U.S. Marine Corps that its recruiting station is not welcome in the city. Meanwhile, Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates issued an...

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• Berkeley in Republican crosshairs on Marines

  - 2008-02-07

  Several Republicans in Congress are moving forward with an effort to strip Berkeley institutions of federal funds in retaliation for last week's City Council vote telling the U.S. Marine Corps that its recruiting station is not welcome in the city. Meanwhile, Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates issued an...

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• UC Berkeley professor to speak on families

  - 2007-10-15

  PROVO -- Ann Swidler, professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, will present a lecture Thursday at Brigham Young University titled "Fighting for the American Family: Families in the Crosshairs of the Culture Wars." The lecture is sponsored by the Marjorie Pay Hinckley Chair in Social...

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• UC Berkeley depression statistics high

  - 2007-04-19

  BERKELEY -- The numbers are startling: Four out of 10 college students have been so depressed at some point in the past year that they were unable to function. At UC Berkeley, where a 2004 study revealed widespread depression among graduate students, counselors are asking university employees...

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• Australia a leader in ADHD drug use.

  - 2007-03-07

  Byline: Cathy O'Leary Mar 07, 2007 (The West Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- New research confirms Australia is a major prescriber of psychostimulant drugs to treat attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder ADHD. Research at the University of California, Berkeley found a 300 increase...

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• Two collegiate memorial funds set up in Rodney Friedman's name.(DM Notebook)(Brief article)

  - 2007-01-17

  Rodney Friedman and Richard Benson founded the University of California, Berkeley Wellness Letter in 1982, and Rodney served as publisher and editorial director of the Johns Hopkins Health After 50 newsletter--two phenomenally successful health newsletters. He passed away recently, and two memorial funds have...

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• UC Berkeley engineering dean dies of pancreatic cancer

  - 2007-01-05

  Professor A. Richard Newton, the dean of the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, died at UC San Francisco Medical Center on Tuesday after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 55. Mr. Newton, who came to UC Berkeley from Melbourne, Australia, as...

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