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Freeway air pollution travels farther in early morning
Two years ago researchers outfitted an electric Toyota RAV4 with a set of test instruments and drove back and forth near four Los Angeles County freeways between 4:30 a.m. and 6:30 a.m., sampling the air. The results confirmed that in the early morning,...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Air Pollution, SUVs and Crossovers, Asthma, Trips and Vacations
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UC acceptance rate of California seniors at record low
The chances of in-state high school seniors gaining admission to the University of California worsened this year, as more of them applied and the number accepted dropped 2.2%, according to data released Thursday. Meanwhile, the ranks of out-of-staters and...
Tags: Human Accomplishments, Teaching and Learning, Education, University of California, Berkeley, Students
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Lefty Driesell honored with bas-relief at Comcast Center
More than a quarter century after he was forced to resign in the months following the cocaine-induced death of basketball star Len Bias, longtime Maryland coach Lefty Driesell was officially — and permanently — recognized Tuesday with the...
Tags: Basketball, North Carolina State University, Sculpture, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Arts
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Suspicious package in UCLA parking lot deemed harmless
The Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad responded to a suspicious package at UCLA on Wednesday but later determined it was harmless. At about 5 a.m. an employee heading into work saw an abandoned, metal briefcase in a campus parking structure and...Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Sports
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Supreme Court seems opposed to granting patents on human genes
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court took up a deceptively simple question in a case brought by breast cancer patients and medical researchers: Are human genes patentable? The answer appeared to be "no" during Monday's oral arguments. The justices...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Myriad Genetics Incorporated, Biotechnology Industry, Pathology, John G. Roberts, Jr.
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Is a Rebranded UCONN Huskies Logo All About Selling More Merch?
So you don’t get confused, what with all the high-powered lobbying and marketing going on right now, University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst wants you to know her school isn’t just some corporate promotional product. “We’...
Tags: Basketball, Marketing, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Connecticut Huskies
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Exploring the job market
The job market is beginning to improve for MBA graduates as global companies start to focus on growth following a few years of hiring caution. To be sure, this isn't the job market of the early 2000s, when the jobless rate held between 4 and 6 percent,...
Tags: Business, Marketing, Career and Workplace, Labor Markets, Graduation
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Wide search expected in hunt for next UC president
With no obvious inside candidate to be the next president of the University of California system, experts predict a wide search that will concentrate on similar university systems elsewhere but could also stretch beyond academia. Whoever replaces Mark...
Tags: University of Texas at Austin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Elections, Jerry Brown, Meningitis
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Injuries putting a crimp in UCLA football's practice style
The numbers game is tilting against UCLA during spring football practice. The Bruins can count the number of healthy defensive linemen on one hand. The number of defensive backs — those on scholarship — is even less. As for offensive...
Tags: UCLA Bruins, Awards and Prizes, Sports, Football
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Johnathan Franklin, once seventh at UCLA, knocks on NFL heaven's door
NEW YORK — It could average 400 pounds from tackle to tackle, and still the offensive line Johnathan Franklin runs behind in the NFL won't be as daunting as the line he had at UCLA. His line in college was a queue of seven running backs, and...
Tags: Reggie Bush, National Football League, UCLA Bruins, Seattle Seahawks, Maurice Jones-Drew
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Adult consciousness may be present in infants' minds, study says
Babies wise up fast. By the time infants are 3 months old, their unfinished brains are laced with a trillion connections, and the collective weight of all those firing neurons triples in a year. But the indecipherable babbling and maladroit wiggling...
Tags: Medical Research, Science, Science and Technology
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UC expected to launch wide search for new president
Mark Yudof likes to point out that he was the first real outsider in more than a century chosen to run the sprawling University of California system. And he often jokes that, as a result of his leadership, it is likely to take a hundred years more...Tags: Regional Authority, University of Texas at Austin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Elections, Jerry Brown
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