Conservative feminist featured
The Bruin Republicans are sponsoring “Terrorism and its
Friends on the Left,” featuring speaker Ann Coulter.
Coulter is a feminist conservative who has appeared on
“Politically Incorrect” with Bill Maher, NBC’s
Today Show and CNN’s Larry King Live, among others.
As a graduate of Cornell University and the University of
Michigan Law School, Coulter later became a legal counsel to Sen.
Spenser Abraham on the Senate Judiciary Committee and briefly was
an attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice.
She wrote the New York Times bestseller “Crimes and
Misdemeanors: the Case Against Bill Clinton” in 1998 and was
one of the authors who wrote the column, “We should invade
their (terrorist) countries, kill their leaders and convert them to
Christianity.”
The event will start at 6 p.m. tonight at Young Hall CS24.
Students and attendees will be able to ask questions at the end
of Coulter’s speech.
Apartments forum sponsored
The Anderson School, Urban Land Institute and the Los Angeles
district council will present a symposium featuring an analysis of
the strategies employed to finance, redevelop and dispose of
apartment projects.
It will take place Wednesday at Korn Convocation Hall at The
Anderson School. The event will begin with a reception at 6 p.m.,
with the program scheduled from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
The symposium will include a case study of a major multi-family
housing project in the San Fernando Valley.
Pills stimulate youth in rats
Two dietary supplements straight off the health food store shelf
put the spark back into aging rats, and they might do the same for
aging baby boomers, according to a study at the University of
California, Berkeley, and Children’s Hospital Oakland
Research Institute.
A team of researchers led by Bruce N. Ames, professor of
molecular and cell biology at UC Berkeley, fed older rats two
chemicals normally found in the body’s cells and available as
dietary supplements: acetyl-L-carnitine and an antioxidant,
alpha-lipoic acid.
In three articles in the Feb. 19 issue of Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, Ames and his colleagues report the
surprising results. Not only did the older rats do better on memory
tests, they had more pep, and the energy-producing organelles in
their cells worked better.
“With the two supplements together, these old rats got up
and did the Macarena,” Ames said.
Reports from staff and wire services.