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District selects new superintendent

By Ben Lumpkin Daily Planet staff
Wednesday May 30, 2001
After a four-month, nationwide search that yielded 22 candidates, the Berkeley Board of Education announced Tuesday it has found its new superintendent. -more-

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Wednesday May 30, 2001

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Letters to the Editor

Wednesday May 30, 2001
The Daily Planet omitted the letter writer’s name when it published “Playing that density song” on May 29. We are reprinting it with the author’s name – ed. -more-

‘Brain’ opera well performed, but undistinguished

By John Angell Grant Daily Planet correspondent
Wednesday May 30, 2001
A man undergoes brain surgery and experiences a transformation of his life in the quirky and well-performed, but otherwise surprisingly bland 1998 opera “A New Brain,” which Shotgun Players opened Saturday as its latest show at Julian Morgan Theater in Berkeley. -more-

Hotel earns landmark nomination

By John Geluardi Daily Planet staff
Wednesday May 30, 2001
The 86-year-old Claremont Hotel Resort and Spa, among the most majestic buildings in the Bay Area, was nominated for historical landmarking this month, causing surprise among many who automatically assumed it was already a landmark. -more-

Congressional members say price caps are energy solution

By Matthew Lorenz Special to the Daily Planet
Wednesday May 30, 2001
OAKLAND – House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Missouri, joined congressional representatives from the Bay Area Tuesday at the Ron Dellums Federal Building to take a hard look at the energy crisis in a forum not lacking in commentary on the president’s arrival in California the same day. -more-

Acton Street resident wins cash for trash contest

Daily Planet services
Wednesday May 30, 2001
Pat Graef of Acton Street in Berkeley won $250 last week in the Cash for Trash Contest. She was very pleased to win but admittedly would have preferred the previous week’s prize of $2,700. -more-

Students march at Oakland medical waste facility

Bay City News
Wednesday May 30, 2001
OAKLAND – The debate over the last medical waste incinerator in California, the Integrated Environmental Systems plant in Oakland goes on, as high school students from a Catholic high school in Hayward march and rally at the site Tuesday afternoon. -more-

Gay psychiatrist will pay back Air Force

The Associated Press
Wednesday May 30, 2001

White abalone added to endangered species list

The Associated Press
Wednesday May 30, 2001

Appeals court declines to order energy price caps

The Associated Press
Wednesday May 30, 2001

Bill sets deadline for water standard

The Associated Press
Wednesday May 30, 2001

Fires build fears of long, hot summer

The Associated Press
Wednesday May 30, 2001

Intel, HP launch next-generation processor

The Associated Press
Wednesday May 30, 2001

Lucent fails to reach merger accord

The Associated Press
Wednesday May 30, 2001

MARKET ROUNDUP

The Associated Press
Wednesday May 30, 2001

Editorials

Lafayette deals with meningitis case scare

Bay City News
Wednesday May 30, 2001
LAFAYETTE – Contra Costa County health officials are completed a second day of clinic care and education Tuesday after an adult chaperone on a weekend camping trip was hospitalized with meningitis. -more-

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