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...trade in crack cocaine also appears to have changed. Perhaps it has lost its cachet. "As with any drug epidemic, the attractiveness of the drug begins to wear off, partly because users see so many of their friends dead," says James Q. Wilson, the UCLA professor who is one of the nation's most prominent thinkers on crime. That's important, because crack was the great impetus to crime in the late 1980s as brash new dealers muscled in. Another theory is that the trade has simply stabilized into a "mature market," as they say in the business schools, with...
...BRUINS FROM THE RUINS 1975. John Wooden's final season at the helm. That's when ucla last won a national basketball title. Twenty years and six coaches later, Jim Harrick's Bruins defeated defending champion Arkansas despite the absence of star guard Tyus Edney. Making victory even sweeter was the presence at the Seattle finals of the 84-year-old Wooden...
...UCLA paleontologist Bruce Runnegar, however, disagrees with Seilacher. Runnegar argues that the fossil known as Ernietta, which resembles a pouch made of wide-wale corduroy, may be some sort of seaweed that generated food through photosynthesis. Charniodiscus, a frond with a disklike base, he classifies as a colonial cnidarian, the phylum that includes jellyfish, sea anemones and sea pens. And Dickinsonia, which appears to have a clearly segmented body, Runnegar tentatively places in an ancestral group that later gave rise to roundworms and arthropods. The Cambrian explosion did not erupt out of the blue, argues Runnegar. "It's the continuation...
Santa Clara 2, UCLA...
There are simpler explanations--stress, for example. "Think about it," says Roger Gorski, a neurobiologist at UCLA who has studied rats' sexual behavior for 30 years. "These people undergo a lot of emotional trauma. To cut everything off to become a woman has got to be awfully stressful, and that has got to affect brain structures...