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High-speed bus plan gets big push for East Bay
By Matt Lorenz
Special to the Daily Planet
Friday July 20, 2001
Proponents of a new transit system that uses the light-rail concept with buses instead of trains hope its possible implementation in the East Bay may become the Bay Area prototype in a system that is gaining ground across the country. -more-
City Council extends antennae moratorium
By Daniela Mohor
Daily Planet Staff
Friday July 20, 2001
The City Council extended a moratorium on the installation of wireless telecommunication antennas in Berkeley until the end of the year by unanimously approving a recommendation by the Planning and Development Department Tuesday. -more-
Students fired up about class
By Ben Lumpkin
Daily Planet Staff
Friday July 20, 2001
If an 8-year-old were given the task of designing a school curriculum, it might end up looking something like the Summer Program for West Berkeley’s Black Pine Circle private school. -more-
UC regents give final OK to admissions expansion
The Associated Press
Friday July 20, 2001
SAN FRANCISCO — The University of California is expanding admissions, guaranteeing a spot to students who graduate in the top 12.5 percent of their high school class under a program that will send some to community college first. -more-
Features
Union officials say Levy search hurts other cases
The Associated Press
Friday July 20, 2001
The painstaking search for a missing California woman that has captured national media attention is hurting murder investigations in Washington, leaders of the police union said Thursday. -more-
Sea bird bred at aquarium
The Associated Press
Friday July 20, 2001
LONG BEACH — A horned puffin chick has hatched at the Aquarium of the Pacific, making it only the second location in the United States to successfully breed the distinctive sea bird. -more-
Firefighter arrested for setting fires
The Associated Press
Friday July 20, 2001
SAN DIEGO — A U.S. Forest Service firefighter has been arrested and charged with setting five fires over the past two months in the Cleveland National Forest. -more-
Federal prosecutor charged with mooning her neighbors
The Associated Press
Friday July 20, 2001
SALT LAKE CITY — An assistant U.S. attorney has been charged with lewdness for allegedly mooning a group of neighbors and exposing her breasts after losing her temper on the street outside their home. -more-
Feds suspend human research at Johns Hopkins
The Associated Press
Friday July 20, 2001
BALTIMORE — The government has suspended federally funded research on human subjects at Johns Hopkins University following the death of a healthy volunteer during an asthma experiment, the school said Thursday. -more-
Papers detail Democrat, unions coordination
The Associated Press
Friday July 20, 2001
WASHINGTON — Documents that the Democratic Party and unions have sued to keep secret reveal a campaign strategy in which labor and party officials served side by side on committees that directed the Democrats’ election activities in each state. -more-
EBay’s tripled profits beat Wall Street forecasts
By Brian Bergstein
The Associated Press
Friday July 20, 2001
SAN JOSE — Second-quarter profits more than tripled at eBay Inc., and the mammoth Internet marketplace said Thursday that business will be even better than expected the rest of the year. -more-
Where there’s a will, there’s a divine comedy
By John Angell Grant
Daily Planet Correspondent
Friday July 20, 2001
Another round of free outdoor summer theater hits Berkeley over this weekend – this time a very funny, slapstick all-female production of Shakespeare’s “Comedy of Errors,” staged by Woman’s Will and performed in John Hinkel Park. -more-
Editorial
Solar-sailing spacecraft prototype launched from sub
The Associated Press
Friday July 20, 2001
PASADENA — A Russian nuclear submarine launched a rocket Thursday to test a prototype of an American-sponsored spacecraft that sails on the feeble pressure of the sun’s rays. -more-
