Life before Vaccines: Growing up in the 1930s and 40s
WEBAug 30, 2019 — The East Bay's Non-commercial Voice. Medical science has profoundly changed our lives. I am sure that I would not have survived to this old age without antibiotics, advances in epidemiology and surgery.
Don't trust anyone over 30, unless it's Jack Weinberg
WEBApr 6, 2000 — The man who coined the phrase “Don’t trust anyone over 30” turned 60 years old Tuesday. Jack Weinberg uttered the phrase – which became one of the most memorable expressions of the turbulent 1960s era – during the height of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley.
Home & Garden Columns - Berkeley Daily Planet
WEBJan 23, 2007 — The East Bay's Non-commercial Voice. If Chez Panisse were to serve up a menu to match its guardian bunya-bunya, it would include roast haunch of free-range sauropod and a salad of braised organic tree ferns.
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WEBFriday September 13, 2024 - 10:34:00 AM. My Lords, The horrendous suffering in Sudan is rooted in the inflated egos of two power-hungry war lords. Their rivalry does not however explain their ready access to sophisticated and expensive weapons, or the scale of destruction and suffering in a brutal civil war in which more than 15,000 have lost ...
Ex- child prodigy takes on a different role as son
WEBApr 27, 2001 — The East Bay's Non-commercial Voice. SANTA CRUZ — Adragon De Mello, no longer the boy wonder who graduated college at age 11, is about to face a challenge that life as a child prodigy could not have prepared him for.
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WEB5 days ago — Marc Sapir MD, MPH. Tuesday October 01, 2024 - 11:06:00 AM. Supporters of Israel insist opponents should stop calling Israel an apartheid and genocidal state. They pretend we make this up and are anti-Jewish (though they know many Palestine supporters are Jews). Former US president Jimmy Carter long ago wrote about Israel’s apartheid.
The Life and Loves of Novelist Cecil Brown - Berkeley Daily Planet
WEBOct 9, 2008 — The East Bay's Non-commercial Voice. When novelist and educator Cecil Brown—longtime Berkeley resident and teacher at Bay Area colleges—was introduced for a reading and talk he gave a few weeks ago at Washington University in St. Louis, Prof. Gerald Early recalled when he was in high school in the ‘60s, “The three books that everybody just had to read were James Baldwin’s Another ...
Famed Deaf Sculptor Died 75 Years Ago in Berkeley
WEBAug 3, 2010 — Famed Deaf Sculptor Died 75 Years Ago in Berkeley. Tilden in 1903, when he was near the height of his success and popularity. Tilden’s “Football Players” on the Cal campus is the oldest piece of permanent outdoor sculpture on the University grounds. Thirty years ago Tilden’s “Bear Hunt” statue was plucked by a crane from the ...
Maybeck Made La Loma Park His Own Country
WEBApr 30, 2009 — The foursome squeezed into the Cubby, 1471 La Loma Ave., which had been converted from a garage built for Maybeck’s Packard, the latter nicknamed “Showboat.”. Their rent was $1 a month. As the Depression deepened, Maybeck devised a way of keeping his office open while providing his family with better accommodations.
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WEBJun 22, 2007 — Mystery Surrounds Tilden Murder/Suicide. By Richard Brenneman. Tuesday July 06, 2010 - 06:54:00 PM. A popular Albany physician and her two daughters were shot to death by her distraught husband in a secluded Tilden Park parking lot Monday night. He then turned the gun on himself. Kevin Morrissey, …