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Stories for Jan. 13, 1999

  
1998's Hottest Science Story

  
UC AIDS Team Turns Up Major Clinical Findings

  
Staff Profile: Lirmar Willis Looks Back (and Ahead)

  
Computer Users are Helping Scientists Search for Extraterrestrial Signals from Space

  
After the Exodus: Berkeley, the Empty City

  
Photo: Playing Santa

  
After the Base Closes, It's Tough Out There

  
NIH Awards $1 Million For Biomed Chemistry Labs

  
Photo: Thespian Grove

  
Postage Rate Increase, Bulk Mail Blues

  
CALS Project Celebrates Fifth Anniversary

  
Lectures Explore Evolving Theories of Evolution

  
Photo: A Quilt of Languages

  
Photo: Upset Victory

  
Berdahl Fields Union Concerns at Noontime Staff Chat


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Photo of the Week: Ancestral Clay

Photo: Architecture Professor Anthony Dubovsky and undergraduate Sam Glickman

Architecture Professor Anthony Dubovsky and undergraduate Sam Glickman examine Sam's final project for Environmental Design 11A, Introduction to Drawing. The clay figures depict an imaginary meeting between Sam and his grandfather Reuben, who passed away before Sam was born. The project, called Ancestral Realm, invited students to create in clay an imaginary meeting between themselves and someone important from their past. The students' clay renderings, along with written explanations and sketches were on display in the main lobby of Wurster Hall in early December. Peg Skorpinksi photo.





Top Story: 1998's Hottest Science Story

Independent research by two international teams of scientists - one involving Berkeley astronomers, the other involving physicists based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - has been picked as the number one science story of the year by the editors of Science magazine.

The discovery by the two teams that the expansion of the universe is accelerating surprised everyone, and threw a wrench into current cosmological theories. The scientists came to this conclusion after measuring the speed at which distant supernovas are receding from us. (continues)




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January 13 - 19, 1999 (Volume 27, Number 19)
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