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By Janis Mara Contra Costa Times Updated: 03/24/2009 10:54:27 AM PDT BERKELEY — Norma Myers, a Berkeley psychotherapist, has long dreamed of purchasing an electric car. Now she can swing the deal thanks to an arrangement between an electric vehicle dealership and a long-standing credit union here. Bucking the national trend of tight credit, Berkeley's 67-year-old Cooperative Center Federal Cr…