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...California A New Weapon Against SIDS...
...faculty member at the School of Social Work at the University of Southern California for 36 years, she remained as active at the end of her career as she was at the beginning. Frances wrote 10 books on social welfare and human services, and the breadth of her influence was exceptional...
...after she renewed her driver's license for another five years, Frances Lomas Feldman died on Sept. 30 at the age of 95. Elegant, coiffed, intellectually engaged and living independently until her death, she defied all traditional stereotypes of aging. She shaped our understanding of social-welfare history in California and defined the new field of occupational social welfare in the West. For more than 50 years, she concentrated on the study of the social and psychological meaning of work and life...
...Chalfie will split the $1.4 million prize—awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences—with Roger Y. Tsien ’72, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, and Osamu Shimomura, an emeritus professor at Boston University Medical School...
...Levi Strauss invented the blue jean, I don’t think comfort was at the front of his mind. Being a history concentrator, I’m going to bring some historical perspective into this. When Straus conceived of his good old Levi’s during the California Gold Rush of the 1850s, his reasons were purely practical: to provide sturdy protection for the legs of gold miners. These days, the closest contact with gold I have is the sprinkling of edible gold leaf on my chocolate molten cake from Finale. So I wonder: with pencil, not dirt...