A Sampling of Clips for April 1, 2011

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Clinton Hopes to Spur Students Into Action at UCSD
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 31 -- Former President Bill Clinton said Thursday he wants to help “create a younger generation of sustained givers” who take action to improve lives around the world. This weekend he will join about 1,000 students from universities in all 50 states and 90 countries at UC San Diego for the Clinton Global Initiative University conference. More

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Science, Innovation and San Diego’s Kyoto Symposium
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, April 1 -- For the 10th year in a row, San Diego will step onto the international stage when it celebrates three world-class innovators at the 2011 Kyoto Prize Symposium on Monday through Wednesday. This annual event has become a global showcase of San Diego’s innovation culture. And it has taught this community a lot about our standing as a center of intellectual discovery. (Co-authored by UC San Diego Chancellor Marye Anne Fox) More

Injured Afghan Girl Getting Help from Marines, UCSD
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 31 -- She’s a little cutie with straight brown bangs framing her pretty face. But everyone – especially Dr. Don Kikkawa of UC San Diego Medical School – could see the problem from the photograph last week on the front page of the San Diego Union-Tribune. Nuria, a 10-year-old Afghan girl dressed in a traditional pink wrap, is missing an eye. Reading on, Kikkawa, chief of UCSD's eye reconstruction division, saw that the Camp Pendleton Marines who are patrolling Nuria’s town want to get her some help. More

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Could a Pill Take Away the Tempting Aroma of Food?
Daily Mail, U.K., April 1 -- A pill that stops chips, popcorn and pizza from smelling so good could help us beat the battle of the bulge, UC San Diego scientists believe. They think they have worked out why food smells better when we are hungry, opening the door to nasal sprays and other drugs that interfere with the  process. More

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Recycled Island to Be Built from Ocean Garbage Patch
Discovery News, March 31 -- What's made of plastic, the size of Hawaii, and powered by wind and solar energy? If Dutch architect Ramon Knoester succeeds with his vision, it will be Recycled Island, a sustainable, floating society constructed from a collection of all the Pacific's floating plastic debris. (Mentions the Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

Half a Million Die From Smoking Yearly in U.S.
Los Angeles Times, March 31 -- Smoking causes half a million deaths each year in the U.S., killing slightly more men than women, new statistics show. (Mentions research by Dr. John Pierce of UC San Diego) More

Flotsam From Japan’s Tsunami To Hit West Coast
AOL News, April 1 -- John Anderson has discovered just about everything during the 30 years he's combed Washington state's beaches -- glass fishing floats, hockey gloves, bottled messages, even hundreds of mismatched pairs of Nike sneakers that washed up barnacled but otherwise unworn. The biggest haul may come in one to three years when, scientists say, wind and ocean currents eventually will push some of the massive debris from Japan's tsunami and earthquake onto the shores of the U.S. West Coast. (Quotes Luca Centurioni, a researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego) More

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School Teachers Keep Chavez’s Legacy Alive
KPBS, March 31 -- Angie Connor is a 3rd grade teacher at Cesar Chavez Elementary School in San Diego. Projected on her classroom wall is a large map of California. She points to yellow stars that dot the Central Valley. The stars represent the areas where Chavez had to go to pick crops. (Quotes Agustin Orozco, assistant director at UC San Diego’s Office of Academic Support and Instructional Services) More

S.D. Rep gets Ruhl's 'Next Room' Just Right
North County Times, March 30 -- "Physician, heal thyself!" That's the gist of "In The Next Room (or the vibrator play)," Sarah Ruhl's antic yet deep comedy, now in a vibrant, thoroughly enjoyable production by the San Diego Repertory Theatre. (Mentions Victoria Petrovich, who is on the UC San Diego faculty) More

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