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...Greenwich Village. Born on October 16, 1958, in West Covina, California, Robbins had discovered acting by the time he was 12. In New York City he joined the avant-garde troupe “Theater in the New City,” and by 1979 was studying drama at UCLA...
...National Institute of Mental Health, suicide is the third leading cause of death amongst adolescents, so there is a great danger in not prescribing antidepressants to those who need them most. Thus, the risks of medication must be weighed against the risks of not delivering critical treatment. A recent UCLA study has shown a correlation between a decline in suicide rates and the introduction of the current family of antidepressants into the market. Nevertheless, more research needs to be conducted to conclusively determine the safest course of action...
Still, an increasingly large cadre of prominent academics has stepped forward to question the acceptibility of this trend. Famed UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh has posted mildly bitter invective to his weblog slamming court citations of Wikipedia as absurd given the nature of the source, but the most florid prose on the subject comes perhaps from Robert McHenry, chief of the (less and less popular—let’s keep our private interests straight) Encyclopedia Britannica. McHenry has compared Wikipedia to a public restroom: Such a facility may be obviously dirty, he has said, or it may look...
...really cynical person who didn't want to spend any more money on an educational system might get parents and teachers to blame each other and deflect attention away from other imperfect parts of the system," observes Jeannie Oakes, director of the Institute for Democracy, Education and Access at UCLA...
...that comes after a tight contest against the nation’s best: Harvard believes that if it can hold its own versus Stanford, it can challenge anyone. The last time an opponent played the Cardinal as close as 5-2 was last April against eventual NCAA runner-up UCLA...