- Herbal wraps, mineral baths in Southern California.
Herbal wraps, mineral baths in Southern California No other part of the country has as dense a concentration of spa resorts or as many choices of experience--from programmed pampering to sports conditioning, water and mud therapies to spiritual awareness. At ......
- Wildflowers paint a picture of Southern California's past.
Here is what spring looked like throughout much of Southern California a few generations back. In this photograph, taken last May at Tejon Ranch on the south flank of the Tehachapi Mountains, the yellow carpet is composed of goldfields, a ......
- JDH Editor Emeritus Inducted into University of Southern California's Dentistry Hall of Fame.
In the early 1930s, the science of dental hygiene was still relatively new and in its formative years. Around that same time a young woman, Wilma E. Motley was just graduating from the dental hygiene program at the University of ......
- U.S. response to potential ecological threat to Southern California ecosystems by the introduced Marine Chlorophyte Caulerpa taxifolia. (Abstracts).
In 2000, the invasive strain of the seeweed Caulerpa taxifolia was documented at two southern California sites. A clone of this strain inadvertently introduced into the Mediterranean in the 1980's is reported to currently blanket over 13,000h of bottom, often ......
- Ethics & aging in Southern California.
Ethics & Aging in Southern California An Ethics and Aging Project, sponsored by the Ethics Center at Loma Linda University, ran throughout fall 1990 in the greater Los Angeles area. Funded by a $171,300 grant from the National Endowment for ......
- How important are nonindigenous species to the benthos of Southern California embayments? (Abstracts).
As part of the Bight '98 Regional Monitoring Program, 113 benthic samples were collected in southern California embayments to assess the prevalence and evaluate the effects of nonindigenous species. We found that nonindigenous species were prevalent throughout the area, occurring ......
- El Nino drenches southern California.
The long arms of El Nino have reached across the Pacific Ocean to play havoc with U.S. weather this winter. As warming intensified in the equatorial Pacific, it altered atmospheric wind patterns to send heavy rains in the direction of ......
- Cooling tower ... it's an idea borrowed from Southern California Victorians.
Cooling tower . . . it's an idea borrowed from Southern California Victorians Keeping cool was a major worry when Felice and Louis Shoemaker planned a house in Valley Center, part of the avocado belt north of San Diego known ......
- A Southern California developer. (In Brief).
A Southern California developer pleaded guilty in February of attempting to bribe the mayor of Huntington Park. Harry Hwang of Huntington Park is scheduled to be sentenced in April on two counts of bribery. Huntington Park Mayor Richard Loya contacted ......
- Mussel Mania: longterm contaminant trends in the Southern California Bight. (Abstracts).
Twenty one of the over 260 inter-tidal NOAA National Mussel Watch stations are located in the Southern California Bight and most are located adjacent to regional monitoring grids. Mussels have been collected and analyzed annually or biennially since 1986. Concentrations ......
- A Southern California developer. (In Brief).
A Southern California developer lost another round in a legal and political fight against a competitor. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge David Yaffe upheld the City of El Segundo's environmental impact report for a 2.1 million-square-foot office and retail ......
- Large scale oceanographic studies of the continental shelf of the Southern California Bight: the example of Bight 98 and future approaches. (Abstracts).
Stormwater runoff, sewage discharge, aeolian input, and other sources contribute to the contamination of our coastal waters in the Southern California Bight. The Water Quality Group of the Bight 98 project undertook the task of examining the impact of stormwater ......
- Incidence of Salmonella in free ranging iguanid lizards of Southern California. (Abstracts).
Considerable study has been devoted to investigating the incidence of Salmonella in the gut of captive reptiles, however limited data are available for free ranging populations. This study investigated the frequency of Salmonella in cloacal samples drawn from five species ......
- 1st University of Southern California Capstone Complete.
The University of Southern California's Marshall Business School hosted its first Capstone course in July in Los Angeles. Seventeen physicians completed the eight-day Capstone earning the Certificate in Medical Management. Immediately following the Capstone, the students begin the final year ......
- Saddle up, Southern California style.
You don't have to rough it to ride at these four ranch resorts Billy Crystal galloped to self-fulfillment in ventures of Spin and Marty? Hollywood has long known the appeal of slapping a dude in a saddle and watching what ......