Banafsheh Sayyad knows what it means to follow your passion.

With hectic class schedules, many college students find it hard
to think of leisure time in the near future, let alone plan for the
leisure they expect in roughly four decades: retirement.

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For UCLA students born and raised in now-booming information
technology economies such as India and China, debates concerning
outsourcing ““ the process of shipping jobs out of the country
““ strike close to the heart.

For the patient investor, stocks offer potentially enormous
returns.
In 1981, $10,000 invested in the Dow Jones would have grown to
about $150,000 of the same purchasing power today, assuming all
dividends were reinvested.

Gov. Schwarzenegger can breathe a sigh of relief with the
passage of Proposition 57: the Economic Recovery Bond Act and
Proposition 58: the California Balanced Budget Act.

The U.S. dollar to euro exchange rate has been unfavorable for
Americans for some time now, and the dollar’s relative value
continues to decline.
Last February, one U.S.

Students can say “sayonara” to yet another Westwood
business, as Circuit City, located on Gayley Avenue, leaves the
Village this Sunday.
Circuit City will do its best to offer its Westwood employees
work at alternative locations, but this trend of business closures
makes students concerned about local work options.

U.S. organic food sales for 2003 topped $13 billion, according
to the Organic Trade Association ““ up from just under $1
billion in 1990.
Fifty-four percent of Americans have tried organic foods, and 29
percent said they are now consuming more organic foods than in the
past, reported a study sponsored by Whole Foods Market.

The Federal Work-Study Program is emerging as a source of
stability for students during troubled financial times.
Despite the end of State Work-Study Program funding ““
which, last year, made an additional $1 million available to UCLA
work-study ““ the UCLA Financial Aid Office has adjusted to
maintain student placements in work-study jobs.

It could have been a UCLA Store marketing strategy, but it
turned out to be purely a special tribute to Bruins coaching great
John Wooden.
Following the unveiling of the Nell and John Wooden Court in
Pauley Pavilion on Dec.