General asks skeptical Senate for more time - San Francisco Chronicle

" Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau Printable Version Email This Article POLITICS National Pelosi faces big test Lott rebounds to Senate GOP's No. 2 post General asks Senate for more time Bush renominates judges blocked before State Dellums issues call to...

Diesel Spill At Mooney Mooney

" November 6, 2006 At 1313 hours NSWFB crews responded to a spill of diesel on the Sydney to Newcastle freeway, on the roundabout too Peat Island. Crews from Kariong and Berkeley Vale found a tip truck had run off the road into the mangroves and was leaking diesel and...

Junk DNA may not be junk after all

"Once thought of as junk, noncoding sequences of DNA fill in the gaps between genes and make up more than 90 percent of our genome. Recently, scientists have discovered that these stretches of DNA contain regulatory elements that control how and when nearby genes are turned...

Audio Clips Of The True Agenda Of Illegal Alien Lobby

"Agendas of MEChA, La Raza, MALDEF, and Southwest Voter Registration Projects"

Earth's 'Wobbles' Spurring Cycles of Evolution and Extinction?

From the National Geographic: Small changes in Earth's orbit and tilt may have regulated the cyclical rise and fall of many prehistoric mammal species, new research suggests.Earth's orbital patterns are believed to drive long-term climate change.Over millions of years these...

Dinosaurs: Surprising Twists Found in Triceratops Horns

The two massive horns above Triceratops' eyes grew from tiny stubs that curved backwards, then forwards before settling into a permanent shape in the dinosaur's adulthood, a new study finds...Researchers John R. 'Jack' Horner* of the University of Montana and Mark Goodwin of...

Best Burritos In the World: The Test of all tests

"Call it "trial by taqueria." I was six weeks into my new job as a staff writer for The Chronicle's Food section when my editor, with a glint in his eyes, proposed an assignment: Go out and, as an extension of...

Berkeley Takes a Stroll

"Members of the Berkeley Morris dance troupe perform as part of the opening parade at the 32nd annual Solano Avenue Stroll. More than 150,000 people attended the event, which featured a dunk tank, live music on...

Governor Schwarzenegger Launches Cross-Border Law Enforcement Task Force

Since September 11, 2001, 39 tunnels crossing the southern border into the U.S., have been discovered.

Immigration protests get ugly in Fremont

The national debate on illegal immigration has erupted into fisticuffs. Six people were arrested after a fight between the East Bay Coalition for Border Security and the International Socialist Organization.

An Emerging American Voice from Berkeley: Markos Moulitsas Zuniga of Daily Kos

"Three years ago, 50 friends and family members were the only ones reading Markos Moulitsas Zuniga's liberal blog www.dailykos.com. Now that 600,000 politics junkies are alighting daily on what's become the nation's most popular political blog, the inevitable is happening."

Berkeley Law Welcomes Minority Admits... Uninvites Them 15 Minutes Later

By Kevin Lim  This last Friday afternoon, an email went out to a group of Boalt Law (UC Berkeley Law School) applicants. Though the email was sent directly to each student, the content of the email...

How Berkeley Can You Be? - Parade History

The "How Berkeley Can You Be?" Parade and Festival began in 1996, and was the brainchild of John Solomon, a longtime University Avenue merchant. John's involvement with the University Avenue Association...

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