A new essay collection edited by Lawrence Rosenthal, executive director of UC Berkeley's nonpartisan Center for Right-Wing Studies, and program director Christine Trost takes a hard look at the nation's hard right. With the election weeks away, the insights in Steep: The Precipitous Rise of the Tea Party couldn't be more timely.
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UC Berkeley scientists have sequenced nearly all the genes in an underground community of microbes at a contaminated uranium mill site in Colorado. Their work could help scientists better manipulate microbes that clean up heavy-metal contamination or take up and store carbon from the atmosphere.
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A year ago, college was just a dream for Gift Betty Opar of Kenya. After losing her parents to AIDS, there was no income for tuition. But she had excellent grades, spoke three languages, and was a community volunteer. Now she's at UC Berkeley as one of seven students from Sub-Saharan Africa taking part in the new MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program.
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