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...week wore on, further complications emerged. In a letter to the Times, Watson denied his remarks. "I sat next to [Kolata] at a meeting at UCLA six weeks ago," he told TIME. "She never took any notes." He says he did not tell her that cancer would be cured in two years, although he did communicate his excitement about Folkman's research...
Bradfield's doctor put her in touch with UCLA's Slamon, who was testing a brand-new antibody that targeted the HER-2/neu protein. Although Slamon was using the antibody in combination with chemotherapy--and Bradfield was loath to go back to chemo--the combined therapy proved miraculous in her case. Sixteen small tumors in her lungs melted away. By 1993 she was in remission, and still is. "I got to be at my son's wedding," she exults. "The gift is that I'm here...
Other researchers are zeroing in on different targets. Some are looking at a specialized growth factor called VEGF (for vascular endothelial growth factor) that so far has been found only in the blood vessels that feed tumors. One synthetic molecule being tested at UCLA prevents VEGF from stimulating new growth by elbowing it aside and taking its place in the cell's receptors. Safety studies in more than 30 patients have so far not revealed any major side effects, although their tumors' growth was only slowed, not halted. Dr. Joseph Sparano, at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City...
Krauthammer has oversimplified the issues concerning minority admissions to the University of California system. He says that despite a startling decrease in black and Hispanic admissions at Berkeley and UCLA, the overall drop in minority admissions at all nine University of California campuses is not dramatic. But in a state as diverse as California, any decrease in the admission of underrepresented students is both significant and dramatic. The drop in minority admissions across the entire system is disturbing, not to be shrugged off as liberal alarmist rhetoric. The University of California must rethink and retool its eligibility and admission policies...
...Tomni" Dance Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland Former Resident Tutor and Race Relations Tutor, Pforzheimer House --Christina Gomez Instructor of Sociology and Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies, Dartmouth College Former Resident Tutor, Mather House --David M. Porter Assistant Professor of Management, the Anderson School at UCLA Former Resident Tutor and Race Relations Tutor, Mather House...