Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that Iranian charges against three detained Americans are "totally unfounded" and appealed anew to authorities in Iran to release them. Full Article at eTaiwan News
"It is most important that the victim lie down and remain calm," says the kit in an instruction suitable if you're a snake snack, but maybe not for creative play. All this for $5.99. Full Article at San Francisco Chronicle
incidents have ignited a debate over how best to protest the budget cuts — and who should be involved. Several of those arrested at the chancellor's house and at Wheeler Hall last week were not students at UC Berkeley or other universities. Full Article at Inside Bay Area
I have before me a handwritten list of 20 objects, ranged down the page in a teenage scrawl. They appear to solicit a profusion of luxury objects: with an airy confidence that the list-maker will get everything she asks for. Full Article at The Independent
Sanders, a professor at UC Berkeley's peace and conflict studies department. "Spy allegations? This is simply not in (Bauer's) character. There is nothing to suggest he would involve himself in that. He wants a career as an independent journalist. Full Article at The San Jose Mercury News
humor and outrageous sight gags create no small amount of laughter. Now, as then, success doesn't depend on what performers do but in how well they do it, and how they manage to make the oldest of stunts seem fresh. Full Article at The San Jose Mercury News
LAFAYETTE, Calif. -- Lafayette Real Estate Broker Alan Marks, 57, had a grand mal seizure last year after 20-years of intense cell phone use. At the time, he estimated a cell phone up to his head for at least 10,000 hours over those 20 years. Full Article at KTVU
Princeton engineers plan to build a laboratory in an old South Dakota goldmine to test whether carbon dioxide can be safely stored in the earth's crust. Full Article at PhysOrg.com
In December 1998, Joan Jeanrenaud played her last concert as cellist of the Kronos Quartet and left the ensemble early the next year. After 20 years, the Kronos without Jeanrenaud seemed unthinkable. Full Article at Los Angeles Times
By Mark Gongloff This week's inflation numbers could look unsettling, but investors shouldn't read too much into them.On Tuesday morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the producer price index for November. Full Article at Wall Street Journal