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...traveling. He has flown abroad hundreds of times in search of peace. He has driven the region's embassies nuts, preferring to travel light and shunning the press, allowing no reporters to follow him and working without an advance schedule for his movements. A talented college basketball player at UCLA--and still a devoted Bruins fan today--Ross plays Middle East diplomacy like an NBA guard: with a broad game plan in mind but with quick movements, spontaneity and flexibility between quarters. Sometimes flying commercial, he's equally likely to order up Air Force planes on a moment's notice...
...Architecture has been nostalgic forever for a bygone era," he says. Lynn isn't. At 35, he's already a much discussed theorist who teaches at both UCLA and the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, Switzerland, where he is nothing less than professor of spatial conception and exploration. At FORM, his Los Angeles-based architecture firm, he practices what he preaches. When an online home-furnishing company, Prettygoodlife.com chose him to design its showrooms, it asked, he says, for "a blob that can mutate but maintain its basic identity." (Think of Liz Taylor in the '80s.) Lynn gave them swelling...
...with it, a strong chance of intergenerational conflict. "Watch for tension to increase among generations as the boomers enter their late 50s," says Dr. David Reuben, who heads the geriatrics division at the UCLA School of Medicine. Noting that "it costs between $35,000 and $50,000 a year [to support] one person in a nursing facility," a strapped nation will, Reuben concludes, have to choose between caring for its children or its parents. Have you ever noticed how the elderly in your town vote when a proposal to raise property taxes to pay for education hits the local ballot...
Parham still has a taste for nightlife, and he finds time in his UCLA schedule to head into the city. He likes the after-hours scene at the Palace, where they serve up great trance music and apple martinis--his favorites...
...When he was released from jail in early December, Stuckey immediately returned to the Yard for a final round of burglaries--the proceeds from which paid for his trip to California. Lucky security officers at UCLA managed to apprehend him before a similar crime wave could begin...