This year, L. will launch an outreach program in East Africa that will give women the chance to earn an income while making contraception available in their communities.
So along with several other clinics near L.A. and Long Beach, they've started this program to send health workers into the homes to find and reduce exposures, hoping to cut down on emergency room visits and missed school days.
Those include a pilot program to test the use of platform barrier doors on the L subway line, and a vow to explore the installation of an automated warning system that would alert train controllers when a person is on the tracks.
The Director of the National Science Foundation (metallurgist Arden L. Bement) shall establish a Federal Cyber Scholarship-for-Service program which will apply to 1, 000 students that will receive free-ride scholarships plus stipends and internships.