On the Town

November 6, 2001

Tonga: Unplugged

By Josh Braun

Next July, Tonga will be the recipient of the most advanced wireless communications network in the world. This hi-tech facelift comes with many difficulties, controversies and unanswered questions.

November 1, 2001

11/1 – 11/7

By Staff

Thursday 11-1 “Take Five” from the midterm crunch when legendary jazz man Dave Brubeck and his quartet come to the Lobero. God and Satan duke it out in the era of the silent screen. UCSB Arts and Lectures pre...

October 23, 2001

The New Pantheon

By Josh Braun Staff Writer Jason La Staff Writer

His name is Zeus. He rules his domain with an iron fist. But he's not a Greek god. He's not human, either. He's your new surgeon.

October 16, 2001

Worming Our Way Out of Cancer

By Adria Le Boeuf

Researchers located gene p53 in a species of nematode worm known as C. elegans. The findings promise to make headway in the search for a cure for cancer.

October 10, 2001

Fourteen Million Years in Tibet

By Josh Braun

"I've been on top of six thousand-meter-high mountains in Central Tibet," UCSB Geologist Bradley Hacker said. "They don't really have a particular name. Just features out in the middle of the Plateau."

September 25, 2001

This is Rocket Science: The Stories Behind Vandenberg

By Josh Braun

Welcome to Vandenberg Air Force Base in north Santa Barbara county, where history is made behind locked doors. Vandenberg is the United States' proving ground for Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles.