Friday, April 10

Bush fundraises in Westwood

While Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon egged on President Bush to stick with him during his campaign, demonstrators collected outside the Regency Club on Saturday Aug. Read more...



Scientists at UCLA create stronger nano-sized fiber

Researchers at UCLA have taken an old method from a common spider and spun it into a new idea for creating stronger materials. The idea was to copy the approach spiders use in spinning a web and to apply this to a method for creating stronger nano-sized fiber materials, according to Thomas Hahn, mechanical and aerospace engineering professor at UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Frank Ko, a materials engineering professor from Drexel University. Read more...


Committee dissatisfies merchants

As Westwood’s economy stumbles toward recovery, many merchants blame Westwood’s Business Improvement District for its slow growth. Many merchants are disenchanted with the BID, whose charter will expire in the fall, because they believe it does not actively solicit business and is not involved enough with newly arrived merchants. Read more...