Life before Vaccines: Growing up in the 1930s and 40s
Aug 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
Apr 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 …
Features - Berkeley Daily Planet
Sep 26, 2002 · The East Bay's Non-commercial Voice. OAKLAND — A couple accused of abducting, raping and murdering a 22-year-old Pleasanton woman in a minivan rigged for torture was sentenced to death Wednesday.
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Berkeley High Inagurates Sports Hall of Fame
Friday June 08, 2007. Berkeley High School unveiled its Athletic Hall of Fame last week to recognize former student athletes who have excelled in sports over the last century. “The Berkeley High Athletic Hall of Fame is an idea whose time has come,” said Berkeley High athletic director Kristin Glenchur. The Berkeley Athletic Fund, a ...
Ex- child prodigy takes on a different role as son
Apr 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.
Local News and Opinion from The Berkeley Daily Planet
Oct 1, 2024 · Kelly Hammargren. Wednesday October 09, 2024 - 01:41:00 PM. Monday, September 30, 2024 was the long overdue meeting of the Peace and Justice Commission on a “Resolution for an Immediate and Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza, and an End to U.S. Military Aid to Israel, and Support for Palestinian Self-Determination”.
Pink Man returns to Berkeley in multimedia show
May 30, 2002 · It seems to work. Several years ago, Pink Man was named “Favorite Local Character” in a San Francisco Chronicle readers’ poll—no small feat when you consider the multitude of colorful personalities thronging the Bay Area. And now he’s appearing on stage. “I Wheel,” an original multimedia performance, is at the Live Oak Theater May ...
Arts Listings - Berkeley Daily Planet
Oct 9, 2008 · 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 Country, John A. Williams’ The Man Who ...
Famed Deaf Sculptor Died 75 Years Ago in Berkeley
Aug 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 ...