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...Warwick Peacock was on Christiaan Barnard's original heart-transplant team in South Africa, but he eventually found heart transplants too routine to present sufficient challenge. In 1986 he came to ucla Medical Center to pioneer new techniques in brain surgery. Last May he faced an unusual challenge: a six-year-old girl suffering epileptic seizures so severe and unremitting that they could be relieved only by removal of part of her brain. First her brain was mapped by a positron-emission tomography scanner, a machine invented at ucla; then those readings were matched against others provided by a more...
Parents need as much guidance as their kids do. Says UCLA psychologist Patricia Marks Greenfield: "Parents tend to opt out after Sesame Street. They don't research what the good programs are." Notes Daniel Anderson, a professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst: "For children, television is a window to the world. Parents should control, limit and regulate television exactly as much as they control, limit and regulate other things the child does-like taking lessons, like eating, like being outside." Indeed, too many parents are like the Man in the Yellow Hat in Margret and Hans...
...want to be the best, you have to start somewhere. Perhaps the most revealing example of that aphorism are John Wooden's 1960 words after losing in the Final Four and, for the 15th time, failing to win the NCAA men's basketball championship at UCLA...
...have had a lot of success," Wooden said to his old friend Hank Iba who had won two championships in the 1940s at the helm of Oklahoma State), "but I Just don't know if I'll ever win a championship at UCLA." Wooden, who started coaching at UCLA n 1946, would go on to win 10 of 12 championships from 1964 through...
This year the team went a disappointing 1-4 in California--losing to Northwestern, San Diego, UCLA and Fresno State. The Crimson's only win during the week-long trip was 5-4 decision over UC-Santa Barbara, which had been ranked above it in the national polls...