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...then decline when the consequences became more luridly obvious--only to rise again when a generational forgetfulness sets in and a drug's glamour could assert itself afresh. Indeed, today some experts are worried that an obsessive concern about marijuana may confuse overall perspectives. Says Mark Kleiman, a UCLA professor who specializes in national drug policy: "It's destructive to focus the country on one small part of drug use. Focusing on marijuana ignores the rising use of methamphetamine and the fact that heroin appears to be coming back, and ignores the No. 1 drug of abuse among high school...
DIED. EVELYN HOOKER, 89, UCLA psychologist whose research in the 1950s led to the removal of homosexuality as a psychological disorder from the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual; in Santa Monica, California...
That's a shame, say such experts as Patricia Greenfield, an author and psychology professor at UCLA. Greenfield notes that video games "provide socialization and training in computer literacy. If girls don't have that experience, they won't have the skills needed for computer use as adults. They will be behind the eight ball economically and socially...
...conservatives like James Q. Wilson, Samuel Beer, Daniel P. Moynihan and Henry Kissinger '50 have also moved on. Wilson took a teaching position at UCLA, Moynihan was elected to the United States Senate and Kissinger served as secretary of state for former president Richard M. Nixon...
BORN: April 8, 1949, Los Angeles EDUCATION: UCLA; West Coast U; Pasadena Community College FAMILY: Single RELIGION: Episcopalian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Legal secretary; child-support investigator POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: P.O. Box 29285, Los Angeles...