In a city where seemingly everyone owns a cell phone and a large proportion of the population spends much of its time stuck in traffic, an initiative the Los Angeles City Council decided to study has the potential to have significant impact. Read more...

Dissatisfaction with the undergraduate student government’s budget process has led to an unlikely alliance between two politically divergent leaders. A new document regarding student group funding has been released in the case between the Jewish Student Union and the Undergraduate Students Association Council, which brought the council’s funding allocation process into question. Read more...

About 200 protesters circled Wilshire Boulevard in front of the French consulate Saturday to protest French President Jacques Chirac’s support of a proposal banning religious headscarves and other religious symbols from France’s state schools. Read more...

For Jeffrey Cole, the idea to launch a multi-year international study of the Internet came to him one day in 1998. It occurred to him when he read that television viewing for kids under the age of 14 was down for the first time in history, mostly due to an increase in Internet use. Read more...

Children suffering from malnutrition. War-battered vestiges of formerly bustling cities. For Dr. Andrew Schechtman, a graduate of the UCLA School of Medicine, such images were part of his daily life as he worked in war-torn Liberia for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières. Read more...

The back room of the store is filled with cases lined with black, quilted padding and stocked full of pipes that look like Vincent van Gogh paintings blown into glass, their bodies curving and iridescent. Read more...