The A-List was out in force today at the market. Dora and I were there and people continue to think that I may be Quentin Tarantino (unfortunately I do see the resemblance). As an avid reader of People Magazine, I was quick to spot three young people who often grace its pages.

According to this website , Dora and I had a 82% chance to make it to our 12th anniversary. My son's violin playing (Star Wars symphony) is not helping. As I flashback to May 29th 1998, I remember that it was a very hot day in Cambridge, MA. My grandfather married us and he did a great job.

In the past, the Congress voted on new risk reduction regulation shortly after environmental disasters took place.

While I'm suffering and thinking, my humanities colleagues at UCLA and Stanford are rocking out .

Recently, I've been thinking about the health impacts caused by exposure to various chemicals. While not revisiting Woodstock or other hippie arenas, I would like to know the answers to some deep "perception versus reality" questions.

Los Angeles did not make the top 10! I guess I raised the average weight around here. Sacramento ranks #7 in terms of the fittest cities in the U.S (read here ). Perhaps because of President Obama and Larry Summers, Washington DC ranks #1.

Here's the top ten:

1. Washington, D.C.

2. Boston

3.

Ed Glaeser makes some excellent points in this piece about public sector compensation. Permit me to add my 2 cents.

1. As Paul Samuelson taught us in the context of his overlapping generations model (OLG), in a growing economy --- we can run a ponzi scheme.

Could an article such as this (an LA Times interview with William Shattner) appear in the New York Times? I don't think so. The LA Times invests less effort in discussing the Wall Street/Washington corridor and devotes more time to the big personalities hanging around Hollywood.

Here is a press release providing details about a new executive education program that UCLA's Institute of the Environment will offer in July 2010. We've been working hard to prepare a relevant and challenging curriculum. We have assembled a "Dream Team" to teach this one week mini-course.

UCLA's Elinor Ochs has her research profiled on the front page of the New York Times today. In this article , we learn about how she spent $9 million dollars to videotape 32 Los Angeles families over the years 2002 to 2005.

Harrison Ford does not appear to be fully at peace with the role that Star Wars played in creating his movie career. My evidence? This LA Times piece . Given the money and the fame that Han Solo offered for him, I was a pinch surprised that he isn't more grateful.

The free market rewards innovation and experimentation. Just ask Kevin Costner; " The " Kevin Costner solution" to the worsening oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may actually work, and none too soon for the president of Plaquemines Parish.

Paul Terasaki is a better man than I am. If you don't believe me, read this . He has lived a full life and has accomplished great things. He must believe that UCLA has played a key role in helping him to create new knowledge. After reading this story, I am willing to make a sincere promise.

I am a retired labor economist. Back in the day, there was an interesting debate about the "scarring effects" of unemployment. Intuitively, does being unemployed make you less employable in the future? Papers such as this one said yes.

Location, Location, Location --- this mantra of real estate applies to green cities as well. Within a city, where should costly renewables infrastructure (i.e solar panels) be sited? The GIS nerds can provide the answer based on their new funky maps .

In several research papers, such as my Pittsburgh decline of steel study , I have stressed the "green city" benefits of U.S deindustrialization. New York City is a "greener" city today in part because it has lost 1 million manufacturing jobs since the early 1950s.

In the midst of the ongoing economic crisis, renewed faith in Keynesianism, and wild stock market dynamics, I have worried about economics' ability to explain and predict human behavior but today the Los Angeles Times offers good news.

Nobody believes it (and nobody cares) but I intended to become a macroeconomist. Some dreams do not die and now I've seized the day. While I'm not studying average national per-capita income or when Ben B. will bring down the hammer, I am studying a time series average fact.

Who has a comparative advantage in studying finance markets? Is it physicists or economists or neither? I respect that my UCLA colleague Didier is entering the mix. I'd like to know what portfolio he holds.

How many new startup firms are attracted to locating in California because of the state's cutting edge carbon mitigation AB32 law? This article argues that there are lots and that these firms will reconsider their decision to locate in California if AB32 is not enacted.

Back in 2007, I published this classic titled "Environmental disasters as risk regulation catalysts? The role of Bhopal, Chernobyl, Exxon Valdez, Love Canal, and Three Mile Island in shaping U.S.

Here are two unrelated stories. Diane Keaton makes movies and upgrades great homes in West LA. If you have the cash, here is a $8.5 Million dollar home for you.

Life sounds tougher in Venice, Louisiana relative to Venice Beach, Los Angeles. This article highlights that the major oil spill has meant the end of fishing in this area and that there are a large number of such workers who will be unemployed.

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