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The NewsCenter profiles seven of these Olympic hopefuls.";}i:3;a:4:{s:5:"title";s:96:" Campus officials declare 'a major victory for our students' in ruling on student-athlete center";s:4:"link";s:68:"http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/06/18_stadium.shtml";s:11:"description";s:206:"UC Berkeley officials said Wednesday night that the campus has prevailed on virtually every challenge in legal action that sought to halt construction of the planned Student-Athlete High Performance Center.";s:7:"summary";s:206:"UC Berkeley officials said Wednesday night that the campus has prevailed on virtually every challenge in legal action that sought to halt construction of the planned Student-Athlete High Performance Center.";}i:4;a:4:{s:5:"title";s:70:"Lancelet genome shows how genes quadrupled during vertebrate evolution";s:4:"link";s:69:"http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/06/18_lancelet.shtml";s:11:"description";s:355:"The ancestor of all chordates, a group that includes humans and other vertebrates, probably looked like a sand-dwelling invertebrate called the lancelet or amphioxus. 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Birgeneau and Syracuse University Chancellor and President Nancy Cantor its 2008 Academic Leadership Award.";s:7:"summary";s:304:"Honoring what it called two higher education "visionaries" and "champions of excellence and equity in education," the Carnegie Corporation announced it has awarded UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau and Syracuse University Chancellor and President Nancy Cantor its 2008 Academic Leadership Award.";}i:6;a:4:{s:5:"title";s:38:"Biologist Gunther Stent has died at 84";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/06/17_stentobit.shtml";s:11:"description";s:220:"Gunther S. Stent, a refugee from Nazi Germany who helped lay the foundations for the field of molecular biology and then moved into the study of neurobiology and consciousness, died June 12 of pneumonia at the age of 84.";s:7:"summary";s:220:"Gunther S. 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