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...UCLA Department of Psychiatry...
...slow response time that Reagan showed in the debate is not uncommon among older people. Said Dr. James Spar, a geriatrics psychiatrist at UCLA: "It's the kind of forgetfulness that when you reach back for a fact, it isn't there. But 20 minutes later, it comes back to you." Stress, not age, may explain Reagan's slips. "Any of us could be capable of that kind of performance live on national TV," said Dr. William Applegate, a geriatrics expert at the University of Tennessee...
DIED. Reidar Sognnaes, 72, a pioneer of forensic dentistry, the founding dean of UCLA's school of dentistry, and the man who in the early '70s confirmed the deaths of Adolf Hitler and Martin Bormann by comparing dental remains with existing X rays; of a heart attack; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. The Norwegian-born Sognnaes also disproved the theory that George Washington wore wooden teeth, demonstrating that his dentures were probably made of cattle, hippopotamus, elephant and walrus teeth...
Albert Brodsky (Ryan O'Neal) and Lucy Van Patten (Shelley Long) "meet cute," in the traditional manner of romantic comedies. He is a film scholar hitchhiking to a job at UCLA. She's an aspiring writer who picks Albert up and marries him four days later. Little Casey (played by Drew Barrymore when she reaches dialogue age) and the career moves quickly follow. The film is at its knowing, uncynical best as it observes Albert parlaying his knowledge of movie trivia into a career as an authentic au-teur-especially of his own misery. Lucy, the girl...
Another popular study, conducted by the Human population Laboratory of UCLA, tested five similar health practices and concluded that those persons who followed these healthy habits did in fact achieve a lower mortality rate...