During a day of thanks and tributes, former students and lifelong friends lauded Berkeley sociologist Troy Duster for a 40-year career marked by prescient insights, generosity of spirit, twinkly activism and far-reaching influence.
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Everyone notices the academic superstars and failures, but what about the millions of teens who fall between these two extremes? A new UC Berkeley study has spotlighted a high school subculture that has made an art of slacking and may be destined to perpetuate the struggling lower-middle class.
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UC Berkeley physicist Andrew Westphal led a team of scientists and citizen-scientists in analyzing dust collected by the Stardust spacecraft in 2004, and reports finding seven dust particles that probably came from interstellar space. These may be the first confirmed visitors from another star.
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