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.
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.
Local News and Opinion from The Berkeley Daily Planet
WEBAug 27, 2024 — Friday 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 …
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 ...
Local News and Opinion from The Berkeley Daily Planet
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 ...
Local News and Opinion from The Berkeley Daily Planet
WEBJan 12, 2021 — On December 8, the Berkeley City Council made its most important land use decision of 2020: It approved the Adeline Corridor Plan, authorizing much greater density in a historically Black neighborhood that has undergone significant gentrification and displacement. The plan area encompasses 86 acres …
Local News and Opinion from The Berkeley Daily Planet
WEBMay 9, 2021 — Item 23 on the Berkeley council’s May 11 agenda is a request from Councilmember Kate Harrison that the council endorse Roadmap Home 2030 and send state legislators a letter urging them to adopt the recommendations of the plan. For reasons detailed below, Harrison should pull the item, wait until the community has vetted Roadmap Home 2030 in its entirety, and then decide whether she still ...
New: New Master Plan for Berkeley Waterfront - Berkeley Daily …
WEBMar 26, 2023 — Saturday April 01, 2023 - 04:23:00 PM. The new plan for the Berkeley Waterfront. Mixed use development brings open space and industrial space in close proximity to each other, increasing the value of both. It looks like a traffic circle, but it’s really a truck pad that can be driven over to allow big rigs with containers to make the turn.