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Child burn victim in Syria brought to U.S. for last shot at life | Fox News
The UCLA prosthodontist, Dr. Christine Fortmann, delicately paints a replica of Hamama’s skin tone onto the carefully sculpted silicone. It’s her fourth prosthetic nose appointment — the next time she will likely get to go home with her coveted facial feature. And while Hamama will have to remove it every night and while showering, the thought of having a nose-by-appearance is enough to bring a rare smile to the young woman’s tragically seared face. “This has been a challenge because normally we draw to match a patient’s real nose, but in this case we had nothing. Not even a photograph. But helping in this way is the whole reason I went into this profession,” Fortmann said. “It’s not just a science, it is also art.”
Claiming 2 years of his presidency were ‘stolen,’ Trump suggests he’s owed overtime | Washington Post
Jon D. Michaels, a law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, said he took Trump at his word. “I don’t take this lightly because there’s been a persistent campaign by this administration to undermine the rule of law in any number of respects, from not accepting the considered findings of judges because of their nationality or purported nationality to calling judges ‘so-called judges’ or ‘Obama judges,’” Michaels said. “It’s disconcerting.” Whether Trump means what he says, his protest “paves the way for future occasions to disregard or dispute the legitimacy of an election,” the constitutional law scholar warned.
Everyone agrees California has a housing crisis. Trying to fix it has become a battle | Mother Jones
The bill’s critics say it would not make a real dent in housing prices. “What the Wiener bill really is about is raising housing opportunities for highly skilled, relatively high-income people,” says Michael Storper, a professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. SB 50 is built on the assumption that the market will react to upzoning by building more housing. That’s true, says Storper, but he warns that “the market will respond in the areas where the price of the construction is met by an effective market demand — a return on its investment.” And that means housing for the well-off.
Denver voters consider the next frontier in decriminalizing drugs: magic mushrooms | Los Angeles Times
“I support decriminalization, but I would be concerned if it became wide-open without any controls,” said Dr. Charles Grob, a UCLA psychiatrist who has researched hallucinogens for over 30 years. “Some people may have a fantastic experience, but a minority may decompensate and get worse. I’d love to see some basic safety parameters in place.” The drug can cause psychotic reactions in people with schizophrenia or even a family history of the disease, he said…. Grob said dosing is another concern, because psilocybin amounts vary from mushroom to mushroom. Still, his own research has shown that the drug can reduce depression among advanced cancer patients, some of whom have had powerful mystical experiences.
Sleeping pills: A risk of car crashes, gunshot wounds and Jason Bourne amnesia | Los Angeles Times Column
Jerome Siegel, a sleep researcher at UCLA, told me there’s no question we’re overdoing it with use of powerful chemicals to knock ourselves into a stupor. “There are situations where short-term use of sleeping pills might be helpful,” he said. “But even that’s debatable. If you ask me, no one should be taking sleeping pills.”
Trump’s trade threats hurt the U.S. more than China | Bloomberg Opinion
As economists led by Mary Amiti of the New York Fed wrote in a paper published in March, the full incidence of the U.S. tariffs imposed to date — some $1.4 billion a month — falls on domestic consumers. A separate paper led by Pablo Fajgelbaum at the University of California, Los Angeles last September came up with the same result. America’s terms of trade are at a high level – but they’ve been gradually declining ever since the second quarter of last year, just before the first major round of China tariffs was imposed.
Stephen Moore’s views are controversial, but not uncommon among Trump supporters | Washington Post Analysis
A 2016 study by political scientists at Princeton University and the University of California at Los Angeles found that “a non-trivial number of both working-class and non-working-class white voters did switch their votes in the 2016 election and that this vote switching was associated more with racial and immigration attitudes than economic factors.”
Tackling homelessness in California’s aging population | KPCC-FM
“It’s a real challenge. One of the things that we’re working on right now are forecasts of the growing age in homeless population in California,” said UCLA’s Randall Kuhn. “Our forecast suggests that the homeless over-65 population in L.A. County is likely to increase by two to three times over the next ten or fifteen years, and homelessness is just one extreme manifestation of a larger housing crisis as well as a rising aging population.”
Rage over Bob Iger’s payday masks how little we know about income gaps in America | Los Angeles Times Opinion
(Commentary co-written by UCLA’s Steven Bank) Do Disney’s employees own some company stock, aligning employee pay with corporate performance? Do they receive benefits, training and retraining opportunities? Given that a skilled workforce is just as valuable — and needs to be managed just as carefully — as financial capital, how does Disney manage its “human capital”? If Disney and all other public companies were required to provide this type of information to investors and regulators, we might amass data that really would tell us something about pay inequities in individual companies and income inequality in society more broadly…. Corporate reports need to bring workers out of the shadows. Disclosure can’t be a substitute for more substantive policy measures — but without meaningful worker pay information we can’t intelligently debate the problems or the solutions related to income inequality or wealth concentration.
The future of our cloud forests is clearer | Axios
“We need to think of antibiotics (developing and protecting them) as a public good — much like we invest in things like national parks, public libraries, roads, bridges, traffic lights,” says Pamela Yeh, assistant professor at UCLA.
How cable news and the polls reacted to 2020 campaign announcements | FiveThirtyEight
Unpacking the relationship between a candidate’s media coverage and performance in the polls is tricky. UCLA political science professor John Zaller argues that journalists try to allocate coverage in anticipation of how important they think a news event or candidate will be, factoring in both current popularity and their own expectations about how the candidates will perform in the future. But that’s where subjectiveness can creep in, including biases that journalists have about a candidate’s race and gender. And that can shape how a candidate is — or isn’t — covered.
UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance announces 2019-2020 season | Broadway World
“Our programs are designed to engage audiences wholeheartedly in the artists’ exploration,” [Executive and Artistic Director Kristy] Edmunds said. “Each performance is illuminating, connecting us, and disconnecting us, from the way we see history. Each time we’re offered a new lens in which to examine our place in the culture of LA and in the culture of the world. Our goal is to provide experiences that allow individual reflection within a communal environment.”
