Patricia Hernandez has the unenviable job of cleaning up the mess left by undergraduates at UC Berkeley. “Whatever they break, we fix it,” she said, sitting on a dormitory couch during her morning break. “Change light bulbs, fix furniture, fix toilets, unclog toilets, replace toilets.” Hernandez, 48, is not complaining, just describing. She is...
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The melee surrounding President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize distracted everyone from another potential Nobel controversy. Of the eight American citizens who received Nobel Prizes in the science categories, five are immigrants to the United States. This should be a counterweight to the persistent critics of immigration, but it remained unknown. In the immigration...
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