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...NOTEBOOK: Next up for the Crimson is a match down the river at MIT Thursday night...But don't be afraid to accuse the squad of looking beyond the MIT match. Harvard faces the daunting challenge of competing against number-one Cal-Berkeley, number-two UCLA and defending national champions California-Irvine in next weekend's Brown Invitational. "It's an opportunity to play against a level of waterpolo we will not see on the East coast," Marshall said...
Today hundreds of people are exploring that question. At Bellcore, the research affiliate of the Bell telephone companies, David Ackley makes little creatures with humanoid faces that roam around a computer-simulated world consuming resources, evading predators and multiplying like rabbits. At UCLA David Jefferson and Robert Collins have created colonies of randomly generated "ants" that over many generations evolve the ability to navigate electronic mazes and search for symbols representing food...
...previous decade. The lesson they have taken to heart: education is a means to an end, the ticket to a cherished middle-class life- style. "The saddest thing of all is that they don't have the quest to understand things, to understand themselves," says Alexander Astin, whose UCLA-based Higher Education Research Institute has been measuring changing attitudes among college freshman for 24 years...
...Baerwald has a knack for eccentric rhythms (rock-based, with sudden jazzy inflections) and a knowing turn of phrase. (Examples: "I got stopped by a cop for oblivious driving"; "Instead of Nero/ We got Madonna/ She's fiddling with herself.") The son of a UCLA political science professor, Baerwald was born in Ohio and at the age of five trailed his father's academic career to Japan. When he was eleven, the family returned to Los Angeles, where he eventually drifted into the music slipstream and decided that "the only way to play rock music was to live." That meant...
...interesting things researchers at the UCLA medical center have discovered is that the environment of medical treatment can actually be enhanced if seriously ill patients can be kept free of depression. In a project involving 75 malignant-melanoma patients, it was learned that a direct connection exists between the mental state of the patient and the ability of the immune system to do its job. In a condition of emotional devastation, immune function is impaired. Conversely, liberation from depression and panic is frequently accompanied by an increase in the body's interleukins, vital substances in the immune system that help...