Word: ucla
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...said Yang. “It tastes like real yogurt,” Wallace added. Yang, a gene regulation researcher at Harvard Medical School, and Wallace, a biochemistry researcher at MIT, said they had been planning to open a business since the day they met as PhD students at UCLA. After entertaining ideas such as a Korean barbecue restaurant and a social networking Web site geared toward scientists, the pair finally settled on the yogurt business. Wallace said that though he and Yang had been warned that opening a business while doing post-doctoral research was not feasible...
...emerged, one with a penchant for participatory democracy but also with some fairly big logistical challenges. Inaugurated in January 2006, the new SDS has been gaining slow but steady speed ever since, with chapters springing up at colleges across the U.S., including Kent State University, Boston College and UCLA. According to the group's wiki site, there are 148 university chapters, along with 50 high school branches and a number of regional movements. But the numbers are misleading. While many chapters dot the country, individual schools may have only a handful of active members...
...group as a whole. Various national interest groups (not to be confused with the previously mentioned working groups) - including different caucuses for women, people of color and queer people - keep everyone in check. "This is of the utmost importance if SDS is to remain effective," says Dave Schulka, a UCLA SDSer. "SDS is an anti-oppression organization...
...children, practitioners are more reluctant to prescribe medication, but they are careful not to stay too long with ERP alone if it's not producing results. "The longer a child struggles with an illness, the more impact it's going to have," says Dr. John Piacentini, director of UCLA's child OCD clinic. Still, there are some people--kids and adults--whose OCD is so acute that more extreme methods are needed, such as hospitalization, more intensive exposure therapy and other medications...
RICHARD RAWSON, director of UCLA's Integrated Substance Abuse Program, urging a measured response to a new study that links habitual marijuana use with psychosis...