Word: ucla
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...conservative alumni group at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has drawn national scrutiny after offering students money for gathering information on “radical” professors...
...Thernstrom, who has taught at UCLA and is considered one of Harvard’s most conservative professors, said he was contacted by the BAA at its founding last year and agreed to join in support of its goal to promote objectivity in the classroom...
Scientists haven't settled on whether repeated chestfuls of unfiltered marijuana smoke increase the risk of pulmonary disease and cancers of the mouth, throat and lungs. Although a recent study out of UCLA says no, practitioners in the field disagree. "There's certainly strong if not definitive evidence that long-term smokers take in a lot of particulates and carcinogens," says Dr. Robert Raicht, medical director of Odyssey House...
...specifically. But there are other risks too. Some trips have ended catastrophically, with suicides or fatal accidents. In other cases, the disaster was not physical but emotional. "There were a lot of people who decompensated into major mental illness," says Dr. Charles Grob, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA's school of medicine. "But you could make the case that these were people who were vulnerable to begin with...
...midlife," says UCLA neurologist George Bartzokis, "you're beginning to maximize the ability to use the entirety of the information in your brain on an everyday, ongoing, second-to-second basis. Biologically, that's what wisdom...