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Tongva, Los Angeles’ first language, opens the door to a forgotten time and place | Los Angeles Times
Each month they gather, practicing pronunciation, mastering the use of particles, singing songs and playing word games under the guidance of Pam Munro, a linguist from UCLA who has been teaching these classes for 15 years. She calls her work “a reclamation effort” for a language that is no longer used in conversations. She avoids calling Tongva extinct; that, she said, is a hurtful pronouncement upon a culture that still exists and a world that in the eyes of many has never disappeared…. “She experiences linguistics as a series of puzzles. That’s different than learning a language,” said Allen Munro, her husband of 50 years, who is also a student in the class. “She is always trying to figure out what’s going on inside these languages.”
Beverly Hills poised to end most tobacco sales | Associated Press
“The costs are enormous to the smokers themselves,” said William McCarthy, a University of California, Los Angeles, professor of health policy and management who has spent 30 years studying the effects of smoking and ways to curtail it. “Ninety-percent-plus of smokers try to quit sometime in their lifetime but millions fail to because of their addiction,” he said. Research shows that convenient access to tobacco makes it easier for students to buy and develop a smoking habit, he told the City Council during a two-hour public comment period that featured dozens of speakers and showed the audience was evenly split on the issue.
‘Apocalypse Now’ turns 40: Rediscovering the genesis of a film classic | The Conversation
On the occasion of the film’s 40th anniversary, director Francis Ford Coppola has now unveiled “Apocalypse Now: Final Cut.”… In 1969, Coppola, who had studied film at the University of California Los Angeles and was a close friend of both Milius and Lucas, established independent production company American Zoetrope, which would fund a number of innovative projects, including “Apocalypse Now.”… Later in his career, Milius changed his opinion of the film, expressing appreciation of Coppola’s revisions and describing the director as “a genius on a par with Orson Welles.”
Arbitration clauses in employment contracts may be hurting workers | KPCC- FM’s “Take Two”
“Arbitration itself is a procedure where two parties agree to have a private person, rather than a judge, decide a dispute that should arise, or does, or has arisen between them, and it usually is a procedure that’s quite informal and not subject to the kinds of rules of evidence and procedure you find in a court,” said UCLA’s Katherine Stone. “Arbitration is forced when workers are required to agree, as a condition of having a job, to arbitrate all disputes that might arise in the future concerning their employment.”
Microdosing peanuts to reverse allergies may make symptoms worse | Healthline
Dr. Maria Garcia-Lloret, who specializes in pediatric allergy and immunology at UCLA Health, sees this field as ever evolving. She said that parents of children with peanut allergies often feel “tremendous anxiety.” There is always the fear that something a child comes into contact with at school or on a vacation might include an accidental dose of peanut. “There isn’t a clear option for treatment out there [as with] diabetes or cancer,” she told Healthline.
How California will be affected by a lack of biodiversity in the future | KPCC-FM’s “Take Two”
“I think it’s important to draw the distinction. A lot of people, when they think of environmental threats happening, think only of climate change. But it’s important to understand that climate change is just the first and leading one of several big, nasty global problems,” said UCLA’s Ted Parson. (Audio download)
The advantages of less invasive mastectomy surgery | Healthline
Healthline asked Dr. Deanna J. Attai, assistant clinical professor of surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles and a past president of the American Society of Breast Surgeons, to weigh in on what the findings mean when it comes to women with more advanced cancers. “The number of lymph node–positive women increased from 23 in 2009 to 64 in 2017, so it does appear that women with more advanced stages of cancer are becoming eligible for the procedure,” Attai told Healthline.
Legal experts debate whether releasing CEO-to-median pay ratios causes confusion or keeps companies accountable | KPCC-FM’s “AirTalk”
“The biggest limitation is that it reduces pay to a number, and it’s not a number of all employees. It’s the median employee,” said UCLA’s Steven Bank. “So there’s around 200,000 employees at Disney, so they find in the total compensation the hundred thousandth employee who makes approximately $46,000, and they’re making a comparison between the employee and the CEO.” (Approx. 02:00 mark)
Texas study affirms local findings on e-scooter safety | Santa Monica Daily Press
The quantitative findings were similar to the UCLA study, which was released in January. The study conducted over a yearlong period at Ronald Reagan Medical Center and UCLA Medical Center-Santa Monica found that one-third of injured riders suffered broken bones and 40 percent sustained head injuries.
Anal cancer is on the rise, especially in women | Philadelphia Inquirer
The lead author of the screening paper, Anna-Barbara Moscicki, a pediatrician and HPV researcher at the University of California-Los Angeles, said the rarity of anal lesions is only partly explained by immune responses and sexual practices. “Why is the cervix so much more vulnerable than the anus? We don’t know,” she said.
7 reasons it’s good for you to sleep naked | Reader’s Digest
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles have found that sleeping in underwear, especially tight undies or thongs, creates a breeding ground for bacteria. Sleeping nude helps your vagina “air out,” as it were, and also reduces the chances of bad bacteria throwing its delicate ecosystem out of balance.
