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...Aaron Rothe, 20, was ready to celebrate. So together with a couple of buddies, he made his way to a local cafe, where they sparked up a water pipe and took turns inhaling its piquant smoke. No, California hasn't legalized the recreational use of marijuana. At cafes around UCLA and in college towns across the country, students are passing around the hookah, the ancient Middle Eastern water pipe filled with sweetened tobacco...
...racial classifications in public university admissions, the percentage of black and Hispanic students admitted to the best law schools in the UC system declined precipitously—in spite of these schools’ efforts to recoup minority enrollment by supposedly race-neutral means such as socioeconomic class. At UCLA law school, the percentage of admitted students who are black declined from 10.3 percent to 1.4 percent from 1996 to 2000. Berkeley, despite scrutinizing each application for evidence of “talents that were not identified by test scores or other standardized measures,” suffered a similar...
...point where we just can't keep adding more injections," says Dr. Margaret Rennels of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The only hitch: the small minority of parents who are wary of vaccines are even warier of vaccine combos. They shouldn't be, says Dr. Joel Ward, director of UCLA's Center for Vaccine Research, which tested the new vaccine, Pediarix. "This has been in development for 10 years and meets every single standard of safety and effectiveness." --By David Bjerklie
Students at Harvard said they hope Hughes’ decision will not mirror that of Kwan, who considered applying to Harvard but chose to attend UCLA in order to remain near to her training site...
...earned an undergraduate degree in physics at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif., a master's in engineering at UCLA and an M.B.A. at Harvard. He learned his current craft at such places as Lotus Development Corp., Dun & Bradstreet and Spencer Trask Software Group, a technology-focused venture-capital firm in New York City. Spencer Trask CEO Kevin Kimberlin remembers Kim as the rare executive who knows software and electronics and is also skilled in finance and marketing--and in closing tough deals...