Harnessing Evolution to Write the Software By Michael Schrage, Michael Schrage is a writer, consultant and research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He writes this column independently for The Times.
Zov's Bistro Will Cozy Up to Hearty Comfort Foods By Beverly Bush Smith, \o7 Beverly Bush Smith is a free-lance writer who regularly covers restaurant news for The Times Orange County Edition. and \f7
Checklists: Aids in the Major Affairs of Life By Louis M. Brown and Jeffrey S. Klein, \o7 Klein is an attorney and president of The Times Valley and Ventura County editions. Brown is professor of law emeritus at USC and chairman of the board for the National Center for Preventive Law\f7
High Life : A WEEKLY FORUM FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS : Therapy at the Mall By Stephanie Stapf, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES; \o7 Stephanie Stapf is a junior at Garden Grove High School, where she is a reporter for Argolog, the student newspaper. Her story won first place in the feature category of The Times Orange County's high school journalism mail-in competition\f7
Parents Are Advised Not to Punish Nail-Biters By H. Paul Gabriel, \f7 and ASSOCIATED PRESS; \o7 Dr. H. Paul Gabriel is a professor of clinical psychiatry at New York University Medical Center.
O.C. PLATFORM : Wrong Motivator By Teresa Linehan, \o7 English teacher TERESA LINEHAN of Buena Park High School commented on a pilot program instituted at Marina High School \f7 in \o7 Huntington Beach that pays money to students who can raise their grade-point average. She told The Times: and \f7
PLATFORM : No Job for the FBI By Malcolm W. Klein, \f7 and \o7 MALCOLM W. KLEIN, a sociologist at USC, began his street-gang research in 1962 in Los Angeles and has continued, with police cooperation ever since, to develop a national picture of the street-gang problem. Commenting on whether an expanded presence by the FBI would help, he told The Times: