Word: ucla
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...Cuban case is, in effect, a high-stakes game of he said-she said. But even if the SEC's version of events holds up in court, there is still a chance that the case could keep going. Stephen Bainbridge, a law professor at UCLA who has followed insider trading law for two decades and written a book on the topic, points out that the case law around whether or not a contract of confidentiality suffices for illegal insider trading "is not as clear as one would like." Some court findings, he says, suggest that it's not enough...
...years ago, the Crimson received an automatic bid as the Ivy champions and defeated Binghamton 2-1, before going down 3-0 to eventual runners-up UCLA in the second round...
...sound like a theme park, but the founders worked closely with education experts, including British creativity guru Sir Ken Robinson and UCLA's Daniel Siegel, to create the curriculum. Questions like HOW DO 4-YEAR-OLDS UNDERSTAND THE COLOR RED? are written on pieces of paper stuck to the classroom walls. Learning is to be provoked, not imposed. Teachers talk approvingly of "fun provocation going on in the 3s." Simko describes her job as leading students into a series of questions that will guide the curriculum. "It doesn't suit everybody," she says of the methodology, "but every school should...
...disappointment," says study author Dr. Rowan Chlebowski at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute and Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. "Basically we have an agent in vitamin D that is almost free and with little toxicity, and wouldn't it be great if it did substantially reduce the risk of breast cancer...
...sliding consumer confidence, which this week hit its lowest point ever recorded. "Consumers have been impacted by a serious downturn in every form of wealth and income that supports consumer spending, and battered by high levels of volatility in their stock accounts," says Stuart Gabriel, professor of finance at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. The diminished value of stocks, falling home prices and fears about potential unemployment combine to create a negative "wealth effect," making consumers feel poorer. As a result, they spend less. Robert Hansen, professor of business administration at Dartmouth's Tuck School, says unprecedented uncertainty...