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Loving your body on Valentine’s Day

By David Scharfenberg, Daily Planet staff
Friday February 15, 2002
Academics warned that destructive concerns about body image are filtering down to 6-and 7-year-olds during a conference on body image Thursday afternoon sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Center for Weight & Health. -more-

Shelf talks of cutting library funds

M.L.King Middle School
Friday February 15, 2002
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A king and a lion bring in street sounds of the Middle East

By Peter Crimmins, Special to the Daily Planet
Friday February 15, 2002
The explosive popularity of world music the last decade has brought Cuban son and Caribbean soca and Latin American salsa and African high life to the ears of many Americans, but music of the Middle East has, for many people, stayed in the domain of the belly dancing parlor and the odd Oum Kulthum cassette. A Berkeley performance by a couple of giants in the Arabic music world will show how close alongside Western pop this music is progressing. -more-

Arts & Entertainment Calendar

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Friday February 15, 2002
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Out & About Calendar

Compiled by Guy Poole
Friday February 15, 2002

Friday, Feb. 15

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Tate carries sluggish ’Jackets past Gauchos

By Jared Green, Daily Planet Staff
Friday February 15, 2002
Sophomore pours in 34 points against El Cerrito -more-

Claremont workers continue protests against management

By John Geluardi, Daily Planet staf
Friday February 15, 2002
Say problems persist with union contract negotiations -more-

Education funding, corrections

John Selawsky
Friday February 15, 2002
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Taking on the medical insurance system with ‘John Q’

By David Germain The Associated Press
Friday February 15, 2002
It’s hard to knock Denzel Washington’s earnestness in “John Q,” the story of a desperate man who takes over an emergency room at gunpoint to force doctors to give his dying son a heart transplant. -more-

Cal men get past Cougars

Staff
Friday February 15, 2002
PULLMAN, Wash. – Jamal Sampson and Ryan Forehan-Kelly scored 11 points each Thursday night as California defeated Washington State 77-56. -more-

Southside Plan pelted during public hearing

By John Geluardi, Daily Planet staff
Friday February 15, 2002
The public had a chance to weigh in on a preliminary draft of the Southside Plan and, as expected, debate focused on housing and traffic policies. -more-

Our health should not suffer because of city decisions

Michael Bauce
Friday February 15, 2002
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Big Medicine surfaces as a new public enemy in movies and on TV

By Theresa Agovino, The Associated Press
Friday February 15, 2002
NEW YORK — There’s a new villain in Hollywood: the health industry. -more-

Prep Scores

Staff
Friday February 15, 2002
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Chocolate is not so sweet a valentine for child labor protesters

By Claudine LoMonaco, Special to the Daily Planet
Friday February 15, 2002
While customers at See’s Candies on Shattuck Avenue crammed in line to purchase valentines for their sweethearts this year, protesters outside drew attention to the bitter reality of child slavery half a world away. -more-

We don’t spend nearly enough on education

Trina Ostrander
Friday February 15, 2002
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Bears beat WSU for second time

Daily Planet Wire Services
Friday February 15, 2002
The California women’s basketball team (7-17, 2-13 Pac-10) got back on track Thursday night in its return to Haas Pavilion, setting a number of individual career highs and team records en route to a 76-63 romp over the visiting Washington State Cougars (2-23, 0-15). With the win, Cal sweptthe season series for the first time since the 1992-93 campaign. -more-

Today in History

Staff
Friday February 15, 2002
Today is Friday, Feb. 15, the 46th day of 2002. There are 319 days left in the year. -more-

Environmentalists sue DOE over radioactive material

By Jessica Brice, The Associated Press
Friday February 15, 2002

Schools, health care top issues for California voters

The Associated Press
Friday February 15, 2002

Click and Clack Talk Cars

by Tom and Ray Magliozzi
Friday February 15, 2002

Installing a suspended ceiling

James and Morris Carey
Friday February 15, 2002

Tip of the week: Bee Attacks Facts

James and Morris Carey
Friday February 15, 2002

Questions and Answers

James and Morris Carey
Friday February 15, 2002

A pineapple plant brings the tropics up north

By Lee Reich, The Associated Press
Friday February 15, 2002

Couples swarm Vegas for quickie Valentine’s Day nuptials

By Angie Wagner, Associated Press Writer
Friday February 15, 2002

President’s Day weekend could mean full house for Las Vegas

By Lisa Snedeker, The Associated Press
Friday February 15, 2002

Court nullifies logging permits in Tongass National Forest

By David Kravets, The Associated Press
Friday February 15, 2002

Construction activity down in California

The Associated Press
Friday February 15, 2002

East Bay MUD may bypass PG&E and sell its own electricity cheaper

The Associated Press
Friday February 15, 2002

HP heir and dissident director hopes to be deal breaker

By Brian Bergstein, The Associated Press
Friday February 15, 2002

Editorials

UC class debates Prop. 45, term limits ballot measure

By David Scharfenberg, Daily Planet staff
Friday February 15, 2002
Experience or new blood? That was the question at the heart of a debate on Proposition 45 in Professor Alan Ross’s “Election 2002” class at UC Berkeley Wednesday. -more-

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