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...mayoral race, with its 24 candidates, has so far failed to produce a leader who shows full promise of pulling together the city's four main constituencies: blacks, whites, Latinos and Asians. Antagonism among those groups has failed to soften in the year since the riots. According to a UCLA survey, while 88% of blacks and 76% of Latinos in Los Angeles were likely to support increases in spending to help the poor, only 61% of both whites and Asians agreed. The percentage of L.A. blacks who felt that American society owed their "ethnic group a better chance in life...
Even scientists who are concerned about power lines acknowledge that the Edison study was a good one. Researchers from the company and from UCLA looked at more than 36,000 Edison employees who had on-the-job exposure to EMFs. Those with the highest exposure did not have especially high cancer rates. Does this prove that EMFs don't cause cancer? No -- just that we still don't know...
...born and the time he incinerates someone. How do you stop that attitude? We tried lots of things." The result is a series of exhibits with broad scope and clear relevance to modern society. "If people simply go to see a Holocaust museum, they'll be surprised," observes UCLA Asian-studies director Don Nakanishi. "This is about our present and future...
...scientists at UCLA believe they have found a solution. In their study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, they used a new test that separates the maternal antibodies from infant blood samples. No longer camouflaged, the AIDS virus was easy to detect...
...Richard Gere and Valeric Kaprisky starred in a silly movie named "Breathless." Gere plays a preening L.A. thief, Kaprisky an innocent French girl taking classes at UCLA. Gere chases her all lover town, panting, running fingers through his hair and humming Jerry Lee Lewis' "Breathless." Kaprisky, fascinated but frightened, puts him off with teasing, heavily accented English ("You're dizguzting," she simpers). Gere, of course, proves irresistible, and tragedy ensues. "Breathless" was supposed to feel gritty and clever, but it was mostly just boring...