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Don't just sit there. Really.
"Prolonged sitting is not what nature intended for us," says Dr. Camelia Davtyan, clinical professor of medicine and director of women's health at the UCLA Comprehensive Health Program. "The chair is out to kill us," says James Levine, an...
Tags: Comprehensive Health, The Ohio State University, Newspaper and Magazine, Science and Technology, Ernest Hemingway
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Setting Times stories to music: from Nick Cave to Dionne Warwick
By Kari Howard This week, I came across a website called Six Word Stories. The website, its creators say, was inspired by a bet from Ernest Hemingway’s pals that he couldn’t write a story in six words. So I thought I’d do six-word...
Tags: Landforms, Apples, Movies, Sundance Film Festival, Music
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Vinny Del Negro, you just got played
Donald Sterling might be considered by some the worst owner in the history of professional sports, but it sure is refreshing to hear someone admit that in the NBA the inmates really do run the asylum. Richard Johnson Los Angeles :: Broderick...
Tags: Jonathan Broxton, Joe Torre, Sports, Albert Pujols, Andre Ethier
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Dancing for Mother Earth
Although the lights were dimmed and the studio soundless, a chair, front and center, bespoke a human presence. Taped to the wall, a sign declared that a set of ankle bells had recently gone missing. Before long, the pitter-patter of pint-sized feet...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, University of California, Irvine, Music, Dance, Malaysia
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Girl born to save her sister's life graduates from CSU Long Beach
Marissa Eve Ayala, who first drew national attention more than two decades ago as the child who was born to provide her sister a life-saving bone marrow transplant, graduated from Cal State Long Beach this week with a degree in speech pathology. ...Tags: Ceremonies, Culture, California State University, Long Beach, Leukemia, Arts and Culture
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Gators, Seminoles coaches visit Ryan Sousa at Lake Nona
Orlando SentinelWord spreads fast these days in the world of college football recruiting. It certainly has in the case of Orlando Lake Nona 2014 wide receiver Ryan Sousa, who gained his 28th offer from Georgia State on Thursday. He also had a pair of high-profile...Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Rutgers University, Sports, Kevin Sousa, Florida State University
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UCLA library worker's death on campus was a suicide, coroner says
The body of a man found on UCLA’s campus was the result of a suicide, according to the Los Angeles County coroner Thursday. The body was identified as Reynaldo Quitos, 47, an assistant in the school’s Southern Regional Library Facility,...
Tags: Science and Technology, Suicide
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Body found on UCLA campus; police investigating
The body of a man was found Tuesday at the base Boelter Hall on the UCLA campus, officials said. UCLA police are investigating but released few details. UCLA spokesman Phil Hampton said officials don't know if the body is that of a staff member,...Tags: Science and Technology
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UC Irvine hires prominent USC professor as provost
]This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.Earlier this month, USC students and alumni were gloating about how their school had hired two top neuroscientists from UCLA, and UC system officials said they were upset by the loss. This week, however, UC announced that it has wooed away a prominent USC...Tags: University of California, Irvine, Colleges and Universities
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Tuesday's college roundup: CNU's Chrismon named South Region Pitcher of Year
Daily PressBaseball: Christopher Newport’s Austin Chrismon (7-4), a Menchville High graduate, was named the d3baseball.com South Region Pitcher of the Year. He posted a 1.74 earned-run average and completed three of his 11 starts, striking out 86 in 78...Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia), Wrestling, Virginia Commonwealth Rams, Virginia Tech
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UCLA students dig into the physics of food
The three undergrads looked warily at the pulverized apples in their bowl. The would-be pastry chefs had planned to drop dollops of the mixture into a chemical bath, creating fruity spheres with a filmy skin and an oozing interior. Their early...
Tags: Science, Apples, Recipes, Science and Technology, Elan Corporation Plc
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L.A. Unified hopes $1.4-million award brings healing in girl's assault
Los Angeles school officials say they hope a fourth-grade special needs student and her family can complete the healing process now that a jury has awarded her $1.4 million after she was sexually assaulted five times by a male classmate. Santa Monica...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Google+, Juvenile Delinquency, Lawyers, Sex Crimes
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