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Pushback grows over ‘Zone Zero’ 5-foot draft rule | Los Angeles Daily News

“The current proposal is to create an ember-resistant zone. That includes all vegetation. That is where the controversy lies. Not all vegetation is likely to be burned in a fire,” said Travis Longcore, an environmental scientist who is co-chair of the Environmental Science and Engineering Program of the Institute of Environmental Sustainability at UCLA.

‘The Devil Wears Prada 2' fashion spoilers cause stir | Associated Press

Costume designer and UCLA professor Deborah Nadoolman Landis reflects on the furor around images leaked from the New York sets of the hotly anticipated movies.

Political, corporate pressure meld in Kimmel case | Christian Science Monitor

ABC’s decision to suspend Mr. Kimmel’s show could be seen as a straightforward business decision to retain viewers and advertisers, says Eugene Volokh, an emeritus law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles who studies the First Amendment. “They have every right to fire him. They get to control what’s on their channel.”

These patients got the cure. Then it went away. | New York Times

Dr. Donald Kohn of UCLA has spent 40 years trying to bring gene therapy to people with adenosine deaminase deficiency severe combined immunodeficiency disease. The inherited disease, known also as ADA-SCID, hinders patients’ immune systems. (Kohn was quoted.)

How to silence dissent, bit by bit until fear takes over | New York Times

Michael Berry, a professor of Chinese literature and cinema at the University of California, Los Angeles, said he was worried that the survival strategy of many Chinese intellectuals — to stop speaking out to stay out of trouble — will take root in the United States as people realize they must be cautious to avoid repercussions.

Lawyer earns historic California fine for ChatGPT fabrications | CalMatters

Mark McKenna, codirector of the UCLA Institute of Technology, Law & Policy praised fines like the one against Mostafavi as punishing lawyers for “an abdication of your responsibility as a party representing someone.” He thinks the problem “will get worse before it gets better,” because there’s been a rush among law schools and private firms to adopt AI without thinking through the appropriate way to use them. (UCLA’s Andrew Selbst was also quoted.)

Trump seeks to enforce transgender, non-binary passport policy | Al Jazeera

An estimated 1.6 million people in the US identify as transgender, while 1.2 million identify as non-binary and 5 million as intersex, according to UCLA’s Williams Institute.

U.S. allies recognize Palestinian state | KCAL-TV

“The significance now is that it puts additional pressure on all parties on both sides to reach some kind of agreement,” said UCLA’s Benjamin Radd.