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Berkeley implements ADA projects despite lack of plan
By John Geluardi
Daily Planet
Tuesday January 09, 2001
Berkeley has been spending an average of $500,000 a year on making public buildings accessible despite the lack of a formal transition plan required by the Americans with Disabilities Act. -more-
Governors’ speech focuses on electricity
The Associated Press
Tuesday January 09, 2001
The Associated Press -more-
Aroner says poor needed to be included
By Judith Scherr
Daily Planet Staff
Tuesday January 09, 2001
Gov. Gray Davis’ State of the State message was a mixed bag for Assemblymember Dion Aroner. -more-
Students need money for Cuba trip
By Erika Fricke
Daily Planet Staff
Tuesday January 09, 2001
How do you get 70 Berkeley High School students to a small communist country? The question is not the set-up for a one liner, but the financial nightmare faced by leaders of a group hoping to take students to Cuba this spring. -more-
Teen population on the rise, health at stake
The Associated Press
Tuesday January 09, 2001
California’s youth population is exploding – both in numbers and, potentially, behaviors breeding poor health and even early death. -more-
Features
Chavez incident first test for president-elect Bush
The Associated Press
Tuesday January 09, 2001
Overturning environmental actions could cost GOP needed support
The Associated Press
Tuesday January 09, 2001
WASHINGTON — Overturning environmental protections imposed by the Clinton administration would cost Republicans a lot of public support, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt said. -more-
Tiananmen Papers called fake by the Chinese government
The Associated Press
Tuesday January 09, 2001
BEIJING — China’s government on Tuesday rejected newly published documents vividly describing how Chinese leaders split over the crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, suggesting that the papers are fake. -more-
Apple pickings becoming slim
The Associated Press
Tuesday January 09, 2001
SAN JOSE — Steve Jobs rescued Apple Computer Inc. once before. Now he has to try to do it again. -more-
Dividend payout biggest decline since ’51
By John Cunnif
The Associated Press
Tuesday January 09, 2001
NEW YORK — One of the less discussed peculiarities of the the financial marketplace in the year 2000 was the decline in dividends, those partial payouts of earnings that old-time investors relied upon. -more-
Stock Market Brief
Tuesday January 09, 2001
NEW YORK — Bargain hunters saved the market from another big tech selloff Monday, rescuing the Dow Jones industrials and the Nasdaq composite index from losses of more than 100 points each in the last hour of trading. -more-
Noted biochemist, former professor dies at age 93
Daily Planet wire services
Tuesday January 09, 2001
Horace Albert Barker, one of the preeminent biochemists of the mid-20th century and professor emeritus of biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, died Dec. 24 at his home in Berkeley after a brief illness. He was 93. -more-
Editorial
New program is in response to alleged voting irregularities
The Associated Press
Tuesday January 09, 2001
LOS ANGELES — Members of a civil rights group Monday announced a plan to address what they called Election Day voting irregularities in South Central Los Angeles during the November election. -more-
