Word: ucla
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...Rock Hudson was flown home to Los Angeles from France early last Tuesday and transferred on a stretcher to a waiting helicopter, which took him to UCLA Medical Center in Westwood for further medical treatment. Lester Maddox, former Governor of Georgia, was undergoing tests out of fear that he might have received the virus that causes AIDS from contaminated blood serum prescribed by a controversial cancer clinic in the Bahamas. At a New York City television station, technicians announced that they would not work in the studio during a scheduled live interview with an AIDS patient. The interview was dropped...
...hospital, any hospital, is a grim place, full of the smells of sickness and antiseptic, stale air, pale faces, hushed voices and old people. Lots of old people. Recently, however, at hospitals like Harbor-UCLA Medical Center near Los Angeles, a new group of patients has appeared. They are men in their 20s and 30s, wan and fragile, short of breath and just barely clinging to life...
...school, and until recently, dealing with them was considered just another painfully useful life lesson. But that attitude is changing. In 2002 the American Medical Association warned that bullying is a public-health issue with long-term mental-health consequences for both bullies and their victims. Just last month UCLA researchers published two new studies showing that bullying is much more widespread and harmful than anyone knew...
During a two-week period at two ethnically diverse Los Angeles middle schools, says Adrienne Nishina, a post-doctoral scholar at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, nearly half the 192 kids she interviewed reported being bullied at least once; even more said they had seen others targeted. Also important, says Nishina: kids are frequently as distressed by witnessing bullying as by being bullied...
Since most bullying takes place furtively--in hallways, bathrooms, the back of the school bus--teachers have a hard time controlling it. It's not impossible, though: with the help of Nishina's UCLA adviser and study co-author, Jaana Juvonen, a local elementary school put together a program in which teachers, parents and students review antibullying rules at the start of each year. The students do role-playing exercises and sign contracts promising not to bully. Teachers incorporate lessons about bullying and coping strategies into classwork. The school has also hired extra staff to monitor places like lunchrooms...