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The author reminisces his childhood experience in making paper airplanes and studying aeronautics. He says that he was able to make different paper airplanes when he was a child by reading origami books. He adds that his paper fighters came along when he began college at the University of California at Berkeley. He relates making paper airplanes with his life as a struggling aviator.

The article reports on the study led by Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton at the University of California, Berkeley which allowed the students to infer the examiner's view of women. The study asked 170 undergraduate females to take a written test. They had progressive decor such as overtly sexist posters of women and breast cancer awareness banner, or neutral objects such as a stack of papers. The study suggests that black people prefer overtly racist whites than with those who behave ambiguously.

The article reports on a research paper from the University of California (UC) in Berkeley which claims that the health of workers are still at risk due to lead exposure despite progress of eliminating the problem. The authors of the paper indicate that there are nearly 3,000 workers in the state were reported to have blood lead levels between 5 and 39 times that of the average adult. According to the paper, exposure to low levels of lead are associated with chronic health effects.

Around five exabytes (5 billion gigabytes) of information was created in 2002, up from around two exabytes in 1999, according to the latest "How Much Information?" survey produced by the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California in Berkeley. Overall, the amount of information being produced is growing by 30% a year. America is the single largest producer, producing around half of the new information on magnetic and optical media, and a third of the paper-based and film-based information. The researchers, led by Peter Lyman and Hal Varian, also estimated the volume of information flows through electronic channels, such as telephone calls, radio and television transmissions, and internet traffic.