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  • Booting up computer smarts

    May 27, 2005 at midnight

    Computers are permanent fixtures in the niches – cubicles, dorm rooms – of everyday life. Social networks, workplace operations, even individual identities have gone to the wires. But few of ...
  • Pouring into the bar scene

    May 13, 2005 at midnight

    Since doodled figures started spreading their energy drink-induced wings in television commercials, the popularity and varieties of the drinks have also soared. Red Bull, the drink that started it all, ...
  • Private matters

    April 25, 2005 at midnight

    Dave Lerman was once a comedian who made audiences of thousands laugh. He and his partner were guests on the Howard Stern Show. Together, they once toured Las Vegas, and ...
  • Seminar explores theories of time

    April 22, 2005 at midnight

    Seventeen students and one professor meet to tackle some of the most mind-boggling contradictions and theories of time and the universe, one hour at a time. Led by physics Professor ...
  • E-week celebrates engineers

    April 11, 2005 at midnight

    The weeklong celebration of engineers and engineering at UCLA will kick off with an opening ceremony in Bruin Plaza today. Since the 1960s at UCLA, E-Week has provided an opportunity ...
  • Building up future engineers

    March 11, 2005 at midnight

    In the rooms of Ackerman Union, groups of high school students design and assemble their own circuits. Others learn the basics of computer programming or nanotechnology. UCLA engineering students at ...
  • Willed body case continues

    March 4, 2005 at midnight

    The UCLA Willed Body Program has been suspended for almost a year as litigation and recommendations for reform proceed steadily. Permission to reinstate the program may be requested this summer. ...
  • Los Angeles developed on shaky ground

    Feb. 25, 2005 at midnight

    The mudslides caused by recent torrential rains in Southern California can be attributed in part to historic errors made back when cattle outnumbered unstable hillsides. “Los Angeles developed as a ...
  • Green tea inhibits cancer growth

    Feb. 18, 2005 at midnight

    A UCLA study has further confirmed the potential and potency of an anti-cancer agent brewed in a pot. Green tea extract has been shown to selectively inhibit the growth and ...
  • Folk medicine goes online

    Feb. 11, 2005 at midnight

    As a teenager, Professor Michael Owen Jones remembers having a particular wart on his finger. Based on the advice of a farmer, he rubbed the wart with a piece of ...