Last tree-sitters descend from UC Berkeley grove

A 21-month occupation of an oak grove at the University of California at Berkeley has ended peacefully, but not without some dispute, as the remaining four tree-sitters descended from their perch and into police custody.

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Cities from Singapore to San Antonio have been resuscitating rivers and turning storm drains into streams. In Los Angeles, residents' groups and some elected officials are looking anew at buried or concrete-lined creeks as assets instead of inconveniences. More Articles

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Berkeley's infamous tree-sitters have been hit with a rude surprise since they came down to earth: Judges are socking them with thousands of dollars in fines and legal fees.Ironically, much of the money - which could total more than $10,000 per sitter - is going straight to the U …

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UC Berkeley officials are preparing to remove the last remaining tree-sitters protesting a planned sports center next to Memorial Stadium.

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Twenty-minutes ago, a mild 4.0 earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay Area.

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This article's beginning is striking, bold, and immediately draws the reader into the following paragraphs. The nut graf is in the third paragraph: UC Berkeley researchers are finding ways to bend light around objects, hoping one day to be able to simulate 'invisibility'.

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This year's event, Adapting to Change, features nationally recognized experts and leaders who will challenge our thinking about climate change policy, the transition to a green economy, and growing economic insecurity.

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Lilyanne Clark introduces herself to people as the "mistress of the tower," which sounds like something from a tawdry romance novel.

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(05-06) 15:51 PDT OAKLAND -- A Berkeley City College student was charged with murder today in the weekend stabbing death of a UC Berkeley student during a scuffle on fraternity row. Andrew Hoeft-Edenfield, 20, is expected to appear in Alameda County Superior Court in Oakland thi …

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Alameda County prosecutors are expected to decide today what criminal charges to file against a 20-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing a UC Berkeley engineering student during a chaotic late-night confrontation on fraternity row near campus.Prosecutors said Monday that they  …

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It's a rather sad story.(05-03) 20:16 PDT BERKELEY -- As horrified students watched from only a few feet away, a 21-year-old UC Berkeley engineering student was stabbed to death early Saturday during a drunken melee in the parking lot of a sorority house not far from campus.Chris …

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The fighting over Berkeley's snub of the U.S. Marine Corps hasn't died down - it's moved to the U.S. Senate.

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Remember seeing and hearing about how we have huge dishes sending out signals out to space in hopes of getting a message sent back to us by another civilization? Well, we ACTUALLY got a message sent back to us (lauging out loud).

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U.C. Berkeley has been podcasting and webcasting for awhile now. They've gone the next step recently and you can now watch some 300 hours of their classes online for free on YouTube.

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The University of California at Berkeley has joined the ranks of YouTube partners by providing a number of full course lectures and other special events through YouTube.

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UC Berkeley launches over 300 hours of content for on-line learning on YouTube. Initial offerings include "Physics for Future Presidents", "Introduction to Non-violence" and "Chemistry."

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Youth joined volunteers and California Women for Obama in San Francisco and shook the rafters of Bill Graham Auditorium! Also, Francisco Pena, former Cabinet member of the Clinton Energy and Transportation Departments, announce he will co-chair Obama's national campaign.

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A growing movement is pushing a worldview that ignores history's lessons about strength and appeasement.

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I got Kicked out of Google's Campus

I drove to Berkeley this weekend with a few friends to visit other friends from high school at UC Berkeley. Being a geek, and within sixty miles of both the Apple and Google campuses, we drove to Mountain View and Cupertino yesterday to see where the magic happens.

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UC Berkeley scientists, digging deep into a remote New Mexico hillside, have discovered a trove of fossil bones that they say is evidence that dinosaurs and their early relatives lived side by side for tens of millions of years before the relatives slowly died off and left the di …

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College is expensive. But if you are willing to settle for an education and don't need the extra frill of a degree, the Internet now offers a way to listen to first-rate instruction—the kind that would normally cost upwards of $40,000 per year—for free.

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New Software Industry Conference

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Not long ago, we wrote a popular piece about UC-Berkeley's iTunes initiative which, to sum it up, allows anyone, anywhere, to download complete university courses to their iPods for free. Amazing.

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"Add it all up and IDC determined that the world generated 161 billion gigabytes - 161 exabytes - of digital information last year."

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UC Berkeley, considered by many to be the best public university in the nation, and perhaps the world, is currently 41 percent Asian, a proportion that's over three times higher than the percentage of Asian Americans in the California population, and almost 10 times higher than …

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A hormone implicated in the onset of human puberty also appears to control reproductive activity in seasonally breeding rodents, report Indiana University Bloomington and University of California at Berkeley scientists in the March 2007 issue of Endocrinology.

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