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UCLA law school places second

The UCLA School of Law took second place honors, after the
Hastings College of the Law at the University of California, at the
52nd Annual National Moot Court Competition on Thursday.

Twenty-eight schools throughout the nation competed at the
event, which was sponsored by the Association of the Bar of the
City of New York and the American College of Trial Lawyers.

The competition involved complex employment and arbitration,
including issues that have been addressed by several Circuit Courts
of Appeal.

The winners were decided by several prominent judges and law
figures, such as the chief judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Second Circuit, Supreme Court Justice for New York and the
president of the Association of the Bar in the City of New
York.

Estrogen may help the heart

A new study appearing in the Jan. 29 issue of Circulation:
Journal of the American Heart Association shows that use of hormone
replacement therapy in post-menopausal women improves blood flow to
the heart and may help prevent heart disease, the leading cause of
death in menopausal women in the United States.

Doctors Roxana Campisi, Lauren Nathan, Gautam Chaudhuri and
Heinz Schelbert from the departments of molecular and medical
pharmacology, obstetrics and gynecology, and other members from the
UCLA School of Medicine studied blood flow at rest and during
stress to the heart in 54 post-menopausal women, 31 of whom were
taking HRT, and in 12 young healthy women who served as
controls.

The study showed that the group of post-menopausal women who had
no risk factors and took estrogen had a blood flow during stress
comparable to that of a 24-year-old woman, indicating estrogen may
improve blood flow at times of stress to the heart.

Andean trade route discovered

The road to civilization may be the same as the road to riches,
suggest findings from a UCLA archaeological team active in the
Peruvian highlands.

Over the past 15 years, the team led by UCLA archaeologist
Charles Stanish has uncovered a circuit of almost 100 pre-Inca
settlements, some dating back more than 4,000 years, along a trade
route still used for commercial purposes.

Anthropology professor Charles Stanish made discoveries of an
area about the size of the country Belize located in the high
Andes, or “altiplano.”

Religious temples are the most common prehistoric remains found
along a dirt road that leads through mountain passes.

Reports from Daily Bruin wire services.