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San
Francisco is hitting a new high
The
mood in the Bay Area is exuberant — almost
as if the dot-com crash were but a distant
bad dream. Here's a quick guide for business
travelers about where to stay, where to eat,
and where to see and be seen.
More >
(Condé
Nast Portfolio ,
April 14, 2007)
The
missionary of retail: Q&A with
Walter Robb of Whole
Foods Market
Walter
Robb, co-president of the fast-growing
chain of ecology-minded food stores,
wants the rest of the Fortune
500 to embrace values-driven capitalism.
Doing so sure hasn’t hurt
his company’s investors. More >
(Corporate
Board Member,
Jan./Feb. 2007)
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Menu's
pastoral descriptions may not be what they seem
What's
in a name? Seeing a "White Marble Farms" pork chop
listed on a menu at a restaurant that serves sustainable, organic,
local ingredients where possible, one could be forgiven for
making some assumptions about it. But the pork, while quite
tasty, was not what it seemed. More >
(San Francisco
Chronicle, October 18, 2006)
Michael
Pollan's new book
on the U.S. food
chain provides few
soundbites — but
much to chew on
A
growing number of Americans
are scrutinizing ingredient
labels and asking, What
is this stuff? Michael
Pollan
can tell you. In "The
Omnivore's Dilemma," he
takes readers to the
feedlot, to the farm,
and into the woods to
learn a few simple things:
what we're eating, where
it came from, how it
got to our plate, and
its true cost. Will we
have the nerve to follow
him? More >
(UC
Berkeley NewsCenter,
April 11, 2006)
Top
Iraq war correspondents
discuss risking their
lives to tell a truth
that few want
to hear — or to
believe
Five
journalists, including
New York Times
Baghdad bureau
chief John Burns
and Washington
Post writer Jackie
Spinner, convened
to discuss two deeply
polarizing questions:
Given the extreme
danger of the situation
in Iraq, are journalists
in Iraq even able
to cover the real
story? And are
they getting the
story "right"? More
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(UC
Berkeley NewsCenter, March 14, 2006)
Suitcase Clinic student volunteers are changing the world, one homeless foot at a time
Berkeley
students are known
for their commitment
to public service.
But even in this group,
the undergraduate-run
Suitcase Clinic stands
out: twice a week,
volunteers and local
practitioners provide
health-care checkups,
vision & dental care,
chiropractor adjustments,
legal advice, job consultations,
and foot washing services
to homeless and low-income
clients in Berkeley. More
>
(UC
Berkeley NewsCenter, March 8, 2006)
Growing
energy: Berkeley Lab's Steve Chu on what termite guts have to
do with global warming
Steven
Chu, director of
the Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory
since 2004, is
on a mission: challenging
scientists to find
environmentally
friendly energy
alternatives to
fossil fuels. Here,
Chu discusses what
termite guts and
manure piles can
teach us, and why
we shouldn't be
writing off nuclear
energy. More >
(UC Berkeley
NewsCenter, Sept. 30, 2005)
The
accidental activist: Born into 'the Family,' Daniel
Roselle hopes to find a new community at UC Berkeley
At
age 20, Daniel Roselle left his parents and siblings
with only a bus ticket, $50, and the address of a grandmother
he barely knew. His biggest challenge was leaving not
just his immediate family, but The Family International — a
religious group that foes condemn as a dangerous cult. More
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(UC
Berkeley NewsCenter, Sept. 16, 2005)
David Byrne really does ♥ PowerPoint, Berkeley presentation shows
In one of the most unusual PowerPoint presentations ever given in Dwinelle Hall, ex-Talking Head David Byrne poked fun at the popular Microsoft software's bullet-point tyranny and Autocontent Wizard inanity. But he also defended its appeal not only as a business tool, but also as a medium for art and theater. More
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(UC
Berkeley NewsCenter, March 8, 2005)
Mixed
emotions: The multiracial student experience
Nearly
a quarter of UC Berkeley students identify
themselves as multiracial. Four "mixed" Berkeley students share their experiences with the question "What
are you?", which forces them to fend off racial stereotypes as they
try to answer the same, more fundamental, question as their monoracial
classmates: "Who am I?"
More
>
(UC Berkeley
NewsCenter, 7 March 2005)
Linguistics
professor George Lakoff dissects the "war on terror" and other conservative
catchphrases
Berkeley
professor of cognitive
linguistics George Lakoff
examines the considerable
progress Democrats have
made in getting their
ideas across. In this
interview, he dismantles
such phrases as the "war on terror" and "liberal
elite," and
tells how to argue effectively
with conservatives. More
>
(UC Berkeley
NewsCenter, 25 August 2004)
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Michael Pollan, Whole Foods' John Mackey usher Berkeley foodies into 'ecological era'
Continuing a debate begun in "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by food-chain detective Michael Pollan, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey came to Berkeley to discuss the past, present, and future of organic food — and the question of whether "big" always has to mean "bad" when it comes to the U.S. agriculutural system.
More >
(UC
Berkeley NewsCenter,
February 28, 2007)
"There is no time": Six Nobel Laureates say averting world's climate crisis requires immediate energy research, conservation, and regulation
(UC
Berkeley NewsCenter,
January 22, 2006)
Will Silicon Valley Rise Again?
Venture
capital is bubbling, people are hiring, and a rebound looks official.
The area's most enthusiastic boosters discount the challenge
from China and India. But
nobody's popping the champagne just yet.
More
>
(Corporate
Board Member,
May/June 2006)
War on terror's biggest casualty is America, say George Soros, Mark Danner, others in forum
Billionaire
philanthropist George Soros — along with other participants in
a forum held to mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks — said that the war on terrorism has not only been ineffective
in its goal, but it has cost America its self-image and its system
of checks and balances. However, there are a few encouraging
signs that the trend may be reversing. More >
(UC
Berkeley NewsCenter,
September 21, 2006)
A
fixture among private companies
Kohler
Co. began in 1873 when
it put feet on a hog-scalding
trough and called it
a bathtub. Over
100 years later, Kohler
now owns several furniture
divisions, runs award-winning
golf resorts, and yet
still has nothing but
disdain for Wall Street.
Outside directors help
keep the CEO up to par,
but will Kohler really
be able to remain in
the family for generations
to come?
More
>
(Corporate
Board Member,
May/June 2006)
Shoe-in!
Founded
during the dying days
of
the
dot-com
bubble,
Zappos.com’s
commitment to service
has
inspired
cultlike
devotion
among
its
online customers and
employees.
But
with
money
from
investors like Sequoia,
can
this
Internet
shoe
retailer
stay
private much longer? More
>
(Corporate
Board Member,
March/April 2006)
Extraordinary
people: Berkeley senior Bryan Goodwin rolls to his own drummer
Fifth-year
senior Bryan Goodwin was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, often
called "brittle bone disease." But many of his friends
don't ever ask why he's in a wheelchair. Having a disability
is just one facet of this fun-loving, right-leaning, club-going
legal studies major. More
>
(UC
Berkeley NewsCenter, Feb. 13, 2006)
Poverty
is this generation's civil-rights movement, says ex-Senator John
Edwards
More
than 1,500 or so students and others lined up from the
Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union all the way to Sather
Gate for the chance to hear former senator and vice presidential
candidate John Edwards talk about poverty. "Poverty
is the great moral issue of our century," he said,
challenging the students to do something about it. More >
(UC
Berkeley NewsCenter, 16 October 2005)
Nobel
winner Charles Townes on evolution, intelligent design,
and the meaning of life
Religion
and science, faith and empirical experiment: these terms would seem
to have as little in common as a Baptist preacher and a Berkeley physicist.
In this interview, Charles Hard Townes, winner of a Nobel Prize in
Physics, explains how they are united by similar goals: to make sense
of the universe and our role in it. More
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(UC
Berkeley NewsCenter, 17 June 2005)
From
jarhead to bowl maker: Graduate student Ehren Tool's
art of war
Ehren
Tool, a graduate student in art practice, draws on his five years
as a U.S. Marine and Gulf War veteran to make ceramic bowls and large-scale
installations designed to bring the idea of war closer to home. He
has given away more than 4,000 military-themed cups, including 50
to U.S. presidents and other world officials. More
>
(UC Berkeley
NewsCenter, 26 October 2004)
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