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Scientists Stumble Upon Possible Breakthrough in Treating Baldness
By Hugh Collins - AOL NewsResearchers in California may have made a breakthrough in the treatment of baldness – completely by accident. The researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles and the Veterans Administration were studying the gut functions of mice with alopecia, an affliction where all of an animal's hair falls out, The New York Times reported. They treated the animals with a chemical and returned them to cages with normal, furry mice. When they returned to look at the animals a few months later, they saw something very strange: None of the mice in the cage were bald -- all had a full ...
11 California Students Charged for Heckling Israeli Ambassador
By Hugh Collins - AOL NewsEleven University of California students were charged on Friday with misdemeanors for disrupting a speech by the Israeli ambassador to the United States last year. Ambassador Michael Oren visited the UC Irvine campus on February 8, 2010. Students, believed to be members of the Muslim Student Union, repeatedly interrupted his speech, accusing him of such things as propagating murder and being a war criminal. Orange County's district attorney says that the students planned the protest and he has hit them with charges that could send them to jail for up to six months, according to The Orange ...
Was 4100 BC a Good Year? World's Oldest Winery Found
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsWine lovers' quest for the perfect, full-bodied red is apparently older than anyone realized. In a cave complex in Armenia, archaeologists from the University of California have unearthed what they believe is the world's oldest winery, from 6,100 years ago. Inside the cave, Copper Age vintners are believed to have stomped grapes with their feet, then fermented the juice in huge clay vats, storing it in jars and then drinking it from cups carved from animal horns. That equipment, plus fossilized grape seeds and skins, was still buried there when UCLA archaeologists stumbled into the cave in ...
Opinion: Help the Unemployed, Not the Rich
By not in system - AOL News(Nov. 17) -- America's long-term unemployed -- an estimated 4 million or more -- constitute the single newest and biggest social problem facing America. Now their unemployment benefits are about to run out, and the lame-duck Congress may not have the votes to extend them. (You can forget about the next Congress.) The long-term unemployed can't get work because there are still five people needing work for every job opening. And the long-term jobless are often at the end of the job line: Either they don't have the right skills or enough eduction, or have been out of work so long prospective ...
Liberal? It Might Be in Your Genes
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Oct. 28) -- Political ideologies often seem ingrained within families. But our ideologies might start even before we're born, according to new research suggesting that behavior in the voting booth is affected by our biological roots. A collaborative effort by researchers at Harvard and the University of California, San Diego, has pinpointed a variant of the DRD4 gene that triggers left-leaning values. The particular genetic variant is implicated in receptors for dopamine, a neurotransmitter that affects how we handle emotion and perceive pain or pleasure. It's already been associated with ...
Blue Wave Turned Red With Blood After Shark Attack
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LOS ANGELES (Oct. 23) - Matthew Garcia was surfing two feet away from his friend who was bodyboarding when he heard a desperate cry for help. Within seconds, a shark flashed out of the water, bit into his friend's leg and pulled him under in a cloud of blood off the coast north of Santa Barbara. "When the shark hit him, he just said, 'Help me, dude!' He knew what was going on," Garcia told the AP as he recounted his friend's death. "It was really fast. You just saw a red wave and this water is blue - as blue as it could ever be - and it was just red, the whole wave." As huge waves broke ...
Jogging With Jesus: Exercise Gets a Boost From the Man Upstairs
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Oct. 7) -- Loving the lord can help some of America's least active citizens get their sweat on, according to a promising new study on the link between prayer and physical activity. A UCLA study of African-American women over the age of 60, who get the least activity of any race-sex demographic, concluded that adding Scripture reading and and prayer to workout programs spurred the women to move an extra three miles a week. More than 95 percent of African-Americans pray on a daily basis, so the strategy makes sense. "The rationale for this study is our belief that health promotion efforts ...
New Food Class Findings Not Likely to Resolve the School Garden Wars
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 24) -- A new study by the University of California found that schoolchildren who take cooking and gardening classes eat healthier than their peers who don't. Writing in The Atlantic, Sarah Henry chalks this up as a victory for the foodie set (led by Alice Waters of Chez Panisse). But a closer look at the study reveals little to celebrate. The scale of the study was quite small -- researchers tracked 238 children in a Berkeley, Calif., school district from 2006 to 2009. In Henry's words: "Investigators crunched numbers on students from elementary and middle schools that had cooking and ...
Booming China Lures Key Professors Home From US
By Richard C. Paddock - AOL News
SAN FRANCISCO (Sept. 23) -- When Weiping Li came from China in 1982 to study engineering at Stanford University, he didn't plan to stay long. But after earning his Ph.D., he found that the best opportunities were in the United States, and he was pleased to land a job as a professor of electrical engineering at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. He became a U.S. citizen and raised a family. But earlier this year, he left the U.S. to work in a country where the economy is booming and universities are investing in the future: his native China. Recruited under a Chinese government program called ...
Study: Some Girls Without Dads Hit Puberty Earlier
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Sept. 19) – Girls from higher income families without a biological father at home are more likely to hit puberty earlier than their peers, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley surveyed 444 girls aged 6 to 8 years in northern California. Over two years, scientists charted symptoms indicating an onset of puberty, defined as breast development and appearance of pubic hair. They also noted differences in the girls' ethnic backgrounds, body mass index and family income. Eighty of the girls didn't live with their biological fathers, though ...
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