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...gather this from the professor, as I was just added as a TF in this course yesterday. Let me tell you a little about myself. Though I was a biochemistry major at UCLA, I then received a master's degree in astronomy at Cornell before dropping out to study traffic patterns in the Harvard Business School parking lot. I do have experience with Harvard sections, however--I visited one when deciding where to go to college--and so I feel very comfortable teaching this course...
...rounds, and her book is already on Amazon's Top 10. Surrendered Wives circles have sprouted in cities like Los Angeles and Chicago. The book has understandably provoked strong reactions. Popular therapist and author John Gray praises it, on the front cover, as a "practical and valuable tool." But UCLA psychologist Andrew Christensen moans, "It's destructive. It's a throwback, and it doesn't protect women...
...University of North Carolina began trials of a breast-cancer vaccine based on bioengineered dendritic cells--rare white blood cells that act as scouts for the immune system. These lock onto a protein called HER-2/neu found in the tumors of a third of all breast cancers. At UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center, researchers are working on a vaccine to treat brain cancer. Still other scientists are experimenting with vaccines for kidney, colon, pancreatic and ovarian cancer...
...concerned, as UCLA coaching legend John Wooden is, that dunking will cause the death of the pure, passing-oriented game that women's basketball is known for? You shouldn't be. Dunking doesn't equal selfishness. The Starzz barely missed the playoffs last year, and lost two games down the stretch by three or fewer points. Would taking more really high-percentage shots really have been all that selfish...
...Connell high school's computer lab. It was packed with students for six hours of voluntary, credit-free SAT prep one baking-hot San Francisco Saturday afternoon in November. Diana Valdivia, a junior, signed up for the program just a few weeks earlier and is now aiming for UCLA. "I'm doing this for my future," she says...