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Businessman Ralbert Brooks-Hamilton owes nearly $500,000 in loans he secured through a program to pump cash into Oakland's downtrodden neighborhoods. Lately, according to federal agents, he's posed as an investment-seeking Nicaraguan diplomat.
East Bay Express  |  Justin Berton  |  10-24-2005  |  Politics
Tags: fraud, Judge James Larson, One Stop Capital Shop, UN World Environment Day, University of California at Berkeley

Biologist Publishes Science for the Peoplenew

At a time when the cost of scientific journals is skyrocketing, Michael Eisen and his partners came up with a revolutionary idea. They make research papers contributed to their journal, PLoS Biology, immediately available for free on the Internet.
East Bay Express  |  Will Harper  |  10-05-2004  |  Science
Tags: science, nature, libraries, publisher, University of California at Berkeley, professors, Institute for Genomic Research in Maryland, Jonathan Eisen, Lawrence Berkeley Lab scientist, subsidy, tenure, Health & Science

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