By Tara Cuslidge, The Record, Stockton, Calif. Dec. 9--Luis Alvarez, 23, knew little about the Stagg High School Healthy Start Center until his senior year of high school. It was where the former football player went for physicals.

By Betsy MasonSTAFF BERKELEY -- The U.S. national laboratories system comprises 17 labs in 12 states with a combined budget near $10 billion, and it all started with the small but ambitious lab that Ernest Orlando Lawrence built.

By Betsy Mason, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Dec. 2--BERKELEY -- The National Laboratories system comprises 17 labs in 12 states with a combined budget near $10 billion, and it all started with the small but ambitious lab that Ernest Orlando Lawrence built.