Word: california
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Meeting in the Fogg Art Museum, officials from both sides gave presentations on their universities. In addition to the Harvard administrators, leaders from the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Virginia, Duke and M.I.T. took part in the chance to meet with their Chinese counterparts...
Last Wednesday's move was therefore an answer to mounting public pressure: after California banned smoking in all public areas in 1997, including bars and taverns, and with similar legislation in Massachusetts pending, it is becoming increasingly difficult not to jump on the bandwagon of public denunciation--even if such denunciation means appearing hypocritical. If confronted, any executive from a tobacco company could simply claim to have the facts in his favor: "we have admitted that smoking causes cancer, what else do you expect us to do?" And surprisingly, few would realistically respond, "stop producing cigarettes." Is that because...
...others boast they'll increase a student's grade by one letter or an SAT score by 100 points, Achieva says all of last year's 1,050 clients got into college, and 85% ended up at one of their top two choices. In the past two years, the California company has boomed from one center to nine and plans to expand to 250 across the U.S. in the next 18 months. "We want to be a brand name like Coke," says Carlos Watson, the company's co-founder...
...last year--and pushing some once easygoing colleges to become more selective. At the same time, the number of high school guidance counselors, the traditional college advisers, has been slashed because of budget cutbacks, creating impossible student-to-counselor ratios (1,040 to 1 in California, for example) and diminishing, if not demolishing, the amount of information available to many students...
Just when you thought you'd heard just about everything about gene research - scientists have supposedly isolated every predisposition from breast cancer to sugar addiction - a group of California doctors claim to have found the DNA strand responsible for the industrialized world's number one killer, heart failure. In a report released Thursday, the team of UC San Diego doctors told of mating mice genetically engineered to contain the gene phospholamban, or PLB, which they believed was responsible for heart failure, with mice that lacked the PLB gene. The resulting offspring did not develop heart failure. They also created mice...