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California's Meningitis Outbreak
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By Warren Olney • • 24m ListenAt UC Santa Barbara, a freshman lacrosse player's feet had to be amputated after a campus outbreak of bacterial meningitis. More than 5000 students were inoculated for that disease at Princeton with a vaccine not yet approved in the United States. Should that happen at UCSB? What about less dangerous viral meningitis at UC Riverside and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo? Also, surprising findings about air pollution in various LA neighborhoods.
On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, massive open online courses—or MOOC's-- held the promise of higher education for millions who can't now afford it. Despite big investment from Stanford, Harvard, MIT and Silicon Valley, MOOC's have not lived up to their billing, but they're not going away. We hear about new ways of using the Internet to meet a worldwide demand for focused learning.
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3 storiesSchool Board Debates Special Election to Fill LaMotte's Seat
Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte died unexpectedly this month, leaving a vacancy on the LA Unified School Board. She represented the South and Southwestern parts of the city with a high concentration of black and Latino students. Tomorrow, the remaining board members will whether to replace her by appointment or a special election for a term…
Read the story6 minCollege Officials Cope with a Rare Disease
Finals ended the first quarter at UC Santa Barbara last week, and many students have left the campus. But there's still concern about the bacterial meningitis that broke out there last month.
Read the story12 minParticulates in Los Angeles
LA's notorious air pollution is dropping in part because the vehicle fleet is getting a lot cleaner. That's especially true on the affluent Westside, where people buy new cars more often. But a neighborhood in Mar Vista, near the Santa Monica Airport, is a startling exception.
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