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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2005
VOL. 116, N0. 3
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Calibrating Hope
By:Sally Lehrman
California voted for the money. Now stem cell researchers and patient groups must get real about balancing hope with reality...
When Aesthetics Collide
By: the editors
When Japan’s elite adopted western luxury goods and styles early last century, the result was fusion fashion, art and design...
The Ghost Dances
By: Paul Saffo
Half the world races toward the future, the other toward the past. Both have weapons. And both are acting out...
The Long Afterlife of Chairman Mao
By: Pueng Vongs
How does the man responsible for up to 70 million deaths warrant both devotion and designer kitsch?...
I-House: A 75-year-old California varietal
By: Patrick Dillon
Protested when it began, the now venerated home to the wordl celebrates a birthday....
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Bears' Last Rose Bowl
By: Carolyn Jones
A trophy blanket serves as a reminder of the Bears' last triumph in Pasadena...
With: 2005 Team's Unfinished Business
By: the staff
Attendance is up. So are expectations...
COVER STORY: Berkeley's Big Bang Project
By:Mark Dowie
A nuclear terrorist attack is likely. It’s the aftermath that Berkeley researchers are worried about...
Also: Dr. Atomic
By: the staff
Berkeley composer John Adams's opera recounts the tense final moments between J. Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller on the eve of destruction...
Also: Real Ethics
By: Lygia Navarro
The morality of using embryos is more complex than the life or death debate you've been hearing...
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Fatherly Passion:
Driven by his son's juvenile diabetes, Robert Klein (left)spearheaded the political campaign for California's groundbreaking $3 billion stem cell research program. Now, he's in charge. |
Cover by Jonathan Tuttle.
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