Samantha Boyd (foreground) listen to Professor Mark Kubinec lecture introductory chemistry at the University of California Berkeley in an overflowing lecture hall in Berkeley, California, September 1, 2006. (Maria J Avila/San Jose Mercury News/MCT)
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