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Wall Street's other piece of soothsaying wisdom--that a G.O.P. President will unleash the bulls because Republicans are good for business--isn't even supported by history. Finance professors Pedro Santa-Clara and Rossen Valkanov of the Anderson School of Business at UCLA have studied the linkage between Presidents and stock prices. They found that from 1927 through late 2003, stocks outperformed short-term Treasuries by an annual average of 12% under Democratic Presidents but by only 1.9% under Republicans...
...intersexuals. New research on the genetics of sexual development shows, for example, that several of the genes that influence sex are not even located on the X or Y chromosomes. What it all boils down to, says Dr. Eric Vilain, a professor of human genetics, pediatrics and urology at UCLA, is that the roots of gender identity are much more complex than anyone thought. But Kelli could have told them that...
Professor of pharmacology at UCLA and head of the university-based Olympic Analytical Laboratory, Catlin understands better than almost anybody that the sports-doping war is essentially a pharmacological arms race, with chemists in illegal labs tinkering with steroid formulations so that the drugs can perform their muscle-building jobs while sidestepping tests designed to detect them. The testers, for their part, strive to discover the existence of the new drugs and develop ways to screen for them, driving the bad guys to modify them further, and so on. "By definition," says Rob Manfred, a labor-relations executive with Major...
What makes the new drug so cunning is that it grows unstable in the body, breaking apart before it reaches the urine and becoming invisible to screening tests. To track it, the UCLA lab invented a new test that is sensitive to the elements of the deconstructed steroid. So far, five track and field stars and four players from football's Oakland Raiders have tested positive for the drug...
Earlier this month, the HLSVA told the UCLA pro-Solomon Amendment activists that it would not become involved in the widening legal battle...