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...year, the future UCLA professor smuggled a flying squirrel and an opossum into his dorm room, Diamond’s son Joshua said in a recent interview...

Author: By Sue Lin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jared Diamond | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

...moved across the country to teach physiology at UCLA, where he has remained for over 40 years. While investigating the membrane physiology of the intestine in the laboratory, Diamond also pursued a separate interest in evolutionary biology and the study of New Guinea birds...

Author: By Sue Lin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jared Diamond | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

...doctors say he remains at risk for not only spread from the excised cancers but new growths as well. "We know that there is a 40% risk of melanoma coming back with metastases even though the primary lesion is taken out," says Dr. Antoni Ribas, a cancer surgeon at UCLA Medical Center, who has not treated the Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Healthy Is John McCain? | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

...experience for us.”The top eight of the 21 participating teams advanced to the NCAA championships. While it was always going to be difficult for Harvard to qualify facing some of the top teams in the country—like UCLA and Purdue—the Crimson did not play its best golf on its way to a 19th place finish.“It was a little bittersweet because you’d like to go out on a really high note, but you can’t end the season on a bad note when...

Author: By Jay M. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Falters In Texas Heat | 5/12/2008 | See Source »

...odds that North Carolina, UCLA, Kansas, and Memphis—the four top-ranked teams in the country—would all make it to the championship in San Antonio were fairly slim. Basketball Prospectus, which uses past performance to generate probabilities of future outcomes, estimated the chance of what they termed the “Doomsday Scenario” at 3.5% (smaller, incidentally, than the probability that a number one seed would be upset in the first round). However, that still made it the single most likely of the 65,536 possible combinations of Final Four teams...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: Apocalypse Now | 3/31/2008 | See Source »

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