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After stints directing collegiate and corporate food programs at institutions like the University of California at both Los Angeles (UCLA) and Irvine (UCI), Berry applied to fill the HDS vacancy created when its longtime director, Frank Weissbacker, retired...
When Princeton defeated UCLA in the opening round of the men's basketball NCAA tournament this past March, it marked a rare occasion in which an Ivy League squad was able to compete with today's athletic powerhouses...
...another possibility, says UCLA meteorologist Roger Wakimoto, is that the tornadoes typical of supercell storms are formed by the same mechanism that creates the smaller, less destructive funnel clouds known as waterspouts, landspouts and dust devils. These twisters all build their vortexes not from the clouds down but from the ground up. They are triggered, Wakimoto says, by low-lying eddies of air that are perturbed by a fast-moving front or some other local disturbance. When a supercell storm passes over such an area, swirling air near the ground could easily be sucked into the updraft and spun...
...clutch hitter who has the hands of, well, a surgeon. In fact, she has taken a leave from her medical residency in orthopedic surgery to join the Games. The U.S. pitching staff is as impressive as the Braves'. It includes Lisa Fernandez, a four-time All-American at UCLA; Michele Smith, with a college record of 82 wins, 20 losses and an earned-run average of 0.25; and Michele Granger, the all-time NCAA strikeout leader. Besides anchoring the infield, third baseman Kim Maher and first baseman Sheila Cornell are among the top hitters...
...annual NCAA men's basketball tournament tipped off Thursday, Harvard found itself analyzing brackets, learning more about the dribbling acumen of Austin Peay's point guard, watching CBS non-stop, and yes, even, cheering for hated Princeton in their first-round game against last year's national champion, UCLA...