April 1, 2021
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For thousands of years, people around the world have relied on medicinal folklore, herbal treatments and rituals to heal an array of ailments. Now, researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have created an online platform featuring hundreds of thousands of these traditional therapies. Spanning seven continents and 200 years, the Archive of Healing draws on such sources as anthropologists’ field notes, scholarly journals, oral histories and folktales. (UCLA’s David Shorter was quoted.)
UCLA In the News March 22, 2021
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Court Register: King s Lynn Magistrates Court, February 18-25
| Updated: 11:00, 16 March 2021
FEBRUARY 18
Luke Turner, 30, of Boundary Road, Hockwold. Drug-driving, greater than seven micrograms of Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol per litre of blood, prescribed limit two, A1122, Downham, £300 fine, £105 costs, £34 victim surcharge, three year driving disqualification.
Rachel Dawn Clark, 30, of Suttons Close, Outwell. Assaulted an emergency worker by beating, Wisbech, 18 weeksâ imprisonment, suspended for 18 months, with maximum 30 daysâ rehabilitation activity, £150 compensation. Possession of 5.71 grams of diamorphine, a class A drug, Outwell, two weeksâ imprisonment, suspended for 18 months, to run consecutively, with maximum 30 daysâ rehabilitation activity.
Lee Michael Cahill, 28, of Pleasant Court, Lynn. Dishonestly made off without paying a taxi fare, Lynn, £24 compensation, £50 costs.
February 24, 2021
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“Biden is trying to reclaim the vision of America that was there during the Obama administration, a vision that was much more diverse, much more religiously tolerant, much more tolerant of different kinds of gender dispositions and gender presentations,” said Norma Mendoza-Denton, a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an author of “Language in the Trump Era: Scandals and Emergencies.”
Sharon Dolovich, a professor at UCLA’s law school who directs its COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project, which tracks the pandemic in prisons and jails nationwide, called the number of prisoners vaccinated in California “incredibly high.” “Generally speaking, prison systems have been slow to bring the vaccine to incarcerated people,” she said, explaining that
Are White Vaccine Chasers the Reason People of Color Aren t Getting Their COVID-19 Shots?
By Jessica Goodheart and Angelika Albaladejo
On 2/25/21 at 4:52 PM EST
Why aren t vaccines reaching the hardest-hit Los Angeles communities? Registered nurse Emily Enos attempts to extract an extra dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine outside the Los Angeles Mission on February 10, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.
Mario Tama/Getty Images
This story is co-published with Capital & Main
Veronica Sance was irate. For days, she d been monitoring the sidewalk in front of a prime South Los Angeles COVID-19 vaccination site, Kedren Community Health Center. And she did not like what she was seeing.
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