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Throw a few more cancer cures on the pile. Researchers from UCLA and Maryland-based Human Genome Sciences have discovered two new angiogenesis inhibitors -- proteins that can starve a tumor by choking off its blood supply -- called METH-1 and METH-2 that may be 50 times more effective than anything currently being studied. TIME science writer Christine Gorman says that while success in the lab is all well and good, she warns that advances like these have a long history of turning into dead ends. "Angiogenesis inhibitors have a 20-year history of disappointment when they?re tried outside...
Researchers at UCLA and Hewlett-Packard have succeeded in constructing microscopic integrated circuits using single molecules as building blocks, an achievement that could lead the way to stunningly powerful and compact computers. Conventional computers are powered by tiny circuits etched in silicon by a laser, but a computer based on molecule-sized circuits would be vastly more compact and require much less power -- James Heath, the UCLA professor leading the project, has suggested that a molecular computer with the processing power of 100 conventional PCs would be about the size of a grain of salt...
Minorities will also do better, supporters of cascading say, because they will end up on campuses like Irvine that may be more socially welcoming than pressure cookers like Berkeley or UCLA. It's a view some minority students at Irvine share. "A lot of my friends said, 'Berkeley, Berkeley, Berkeley,'" Tiger Dunams, a junior at Irvine, recalls of her college-choosing days. "I went there and looked at it, and it didn't seem like it was the thing for me. My friend goes to Berkeley, and she doesn't really meet people. I'm interacting with professors and graduate...
...ever. But the black science students gathered around the U.C. Irvine dining-hall table were confident that whatever the rules are, they can succeed under them. So is Elizabeth Lomeli. A Hispanic graduate of Santa Ana High School, she will attend Irvine in the fall after being rejected by UCLA. There's no way she'll ever know if she'd have got into UCLA under affirmative action, but she isn't upset about how things have worked out. "I just cared about the U.C. part--I didn't care about the Los Angeles or the Irvine," she says...
NAME: Larry ("Hothead") Johnson OCCUPATION: Trash-talking basketball player for the NY Knicks BEST PUNCH: At a news conference, responded to Walton's jibe by asking, "That isn't the same Bill Walton who was at UCLA smoking pot and a hippie...