Consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren, delivering the Mario Savio Lecture at Berkeley, diverged from her standard speech on the worsening financial straits of the middle class to talk about the new consumer-protection agency she will lead. By devoting itself to "the economic strength of American families," she said, it can "plug a very big hole in the bottom of the economic boat."
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Professor Harvey Blanch and other researchers at the Joint BioEnergy Institute, in which Lawrence Berkeley Lab and Berkeley are partners, have created an online wiki that aims to allow experts to help biofuels fulfill their promise as cleaner alternatives to greenhouse-gas-producing gasoline.
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A survey of 166 nearby stars like our sun reveals increasing numbers of smaller planets down to the smallest detectable planets - about three times more massive than Earth. If this trend continues, Berkeley astronomers estimate, one of every four sun-like stars may have an Earth-like planet.
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