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Local team helps birds at island oil spill

By Judith Scherr Daily Planet Staff
Wednesday January 24, 2001
A team of bird-rescue experts from Berkeley’s International Bird Rescue Research Center is on its way to the Galapagos Islands, the site of a monstrous oil spill. -more-

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Wednesday January 24, 2001

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Wednesday January 24, 2001
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Defense rests in cop battery case

By Michael Coffino Daily Planet Correspondent
Wednesday January 24, 2001
The defense rested its case Tuesday in the misdemeanor trial of a San Francisco police officer accused of striking his girlfriend in the face at her Berkeley apartment and binding her hands with a nylon strap. -more-

Center retrofitted, renewed

By John Geluardi Daily Planet Staff
Wednesday January 24, 2001
The $37 million Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center renovation is nearly complete. When city offices are reinstalled in the 60-year-old building, employees will find a sunlit, airy and nearly earthquake-proof workplace. -more-

Resident strives to purify water in home country

by Shirley Dang Special to the Daily Planet
Wednesday January 24, 2001
More than 50 million people from East India and Bangladesh drink and bathe in the arsenic-polluted water from the Bengal Basin. -more-

Glitches in Earth’s wobble help scientists probe core

Daily Planet wire services
Wednesday January 24, 2001
Millimeter deviations from the expected wobble of the Earth's axis are giving geophysicists clues to what happens 1,800 miles underground, at the boundary between the Earth's mantle and its iron core. -more-

Court examines Internet pornography in libraries

The Associated Press
Wednesday January 24, 2001

White supremacist to plead guilty to hate-crime shootings

The Associated Press
Wednesday January 24, 2001

Organic farmers, scientists press for research

The Associated Press
Wednesday January 24, 2001

Sate seeks help from Bush as blackouts loom

The Associated Press
Wednesday January 24, 2001

Bill proposes statewide database of organ donors

The Associated Press
Wednesday January 24, 2001

Panel urges fingerprint plan for gun buyers

The Associated Press
Wednesday January 24, 2001

Fewer Cal State freshmen need remedial math

The Associated Press
Wednesday January 24, 2001

Group wants police to arrest illegal immigrants

The Associated Press
Wednesday January 24, 2001

Being wealthy isn’t as easy as it looks

By John Cunniff The Associated Press
Wednesday January 24, 2001

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Wednesday January 24, 2001

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Wednesday January 24, 2001

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New head for Boalt Hall public policy law clinic

Daily Planet wire services
Wednesday January 24, 2001
Deirdre Mulligan, an attorney and leading advocate for free speech and individual privacy rights on the Internet, is the new director of the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall). -more-

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