For the patient investor, stocks offer potentially enormous returns. In 1981, $10,000 invested in the Dow Jones would have grown to about $150,000 of the same purchasing power today, assuming all dividends were reinvested. Read more...

“˜Spinderella’ gives students a fresh angle on culture Deidra “Spinderella” Jones, the DJ for iconic female rap group Salt-N-Pepa, spoke to Scot Brown’s “Recent African American Urban History” course. Read more...

UCLA student Liza Mederos, who had hoped one day to create a foundation to help troubled youth, died Monday morning at the UCLA hospital. She was 26. Read more...

The UCLA swimming and diving team will compete at the NCAA Championships from Thursday to Saturday. The Bruins enter the championships, held at College Station, Tex., as the No. Read more...

When the male head of the household dies in the Amazonian native Shuar population, members of this hunter-gatherer community treat this body almost as if it were alive. Read more...

Sunday’s general elections in Spain brought an end to Spain’s conservative Popular Party’s eight-year rule after almost 200 Spaniards were killed in terrorist attacks in Madrid. Read more...

The day Ahmed Alwishah landed in Iraq was the day the U.S. Army captured Saddam Hussein. Alwishah, a graduate student in the UCLA Near Eastern languages and cultures department, had went to Iraq on Dec. Read more...