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Tom Hanks stopped by Berkeley Typewriter. “He tried pretty much everything in the store here, and actually walked away with a 1930s Royal standard typewriter,” the 90-year-old store’s Ken Alexander said. (SFGATE)

A UC Berkeley alum is set to swim the entire California coast (sharks permitting). (New York Times)

Two second-grade classes at Oxford Elementary took a field trip to plant trees along the Ohlone Greenway, each group of kids getting to name one. (Coyote Media)

Photos of a day in October 1970 at UC Berkeley. (Flashbak)

When reality is in doubt, news editors ask this UC Berkeley professor: Is it AI? (SF Chronicle)

Some UC Berkeley humanities professors say they’re cutting down the amount of reading they assign to students. (Daily Cal)

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