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...which would have had meaning for our ancient ancestors: fear of insects or animals; fear of natural environments, like heights and the dark; fear of blood or injury; and fear of dangerous situations, like being trapped in a tight space. "Phobias are not random," says Michelle Craske, psychologist at UCLA's Anxiety and Behavioral Disorders Program. "We tend to fear anything that threatens our survival as a species." When times change, new fears develop, but the vast majority still fit into one of the four groups...
...Stanford yet! They've got the Collins Brothers, baby! They're the best brother combination since the Karamazovs! The Cardinals are 28-2, baby! Two losses! How can they lose? They've been the best team in basketball all season! They beat the Dukies! They beat Arizona! They beat UCLA! Come on, baby! This is the team that's gonna...
...Play Two Since 1992, five teams have entered the tournament as a No. 1 seed and with two losses on the season. Four have won the national championship: Duke (1992), UCLA (1995), Kentucky (1996) and Connecticut (1999). Stanford is the only team in this year's field to fill both qualifications...
...UCLA forward Ed O'Bannon was the last player to win the Wooden Award in the same year his team won the NCAA title (1995). Three others have pulled the double feat: Louisville's Darrell Griffth (1980), Kansas' Danny Manning (1988) and Duke's Christian Laettner (1992). Michael Jordan was named the Wooden Award winner in 1984, two years after his North Carolina team won the national championship. UNLV's Larry Johnson won the Wooden Award in 1991, the year after the Runnin' Rebels were shocked by Duke in their bid to repeat as champions...
...focus more on evaluating the high schools that students come from. "If we don't have SAT any longer, we'll have to weigh more heavily on what's left--the students' GAP, their curriculum of college-prep courses and other things," says Rae Lee Siporin, admissions director of ucla, which receives more applications each year--about 40,000--than any other U.S. college. But those measures can amplify the inequalities among high schools even more than the SAT. As Duke University admissions director Christoph Guttentag notes, "The students in school districts with more resources will be more equipped...