A Sampling of Clips for April 6, 2011

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Richard Branson Plans Deep Ocean Dive in Sub
FOX News, April 5 -- Billionaire adventurer Richard Branson on Tuesday unveiled a new single-person submarine that he said will be used to set new world records by exploring the five deepest parts of the world's oceans. He is partnering with Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, among others. More

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Rising Oil Prices Beginning to Hurt US Economy
ABC News, April 6 -- Some economists are scaling back their estimates for growth this year, in part because flat wages have left households struggling to pay higher gasoline prices. (Quotes UC San Diego economist James Hamilton) More

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Interview with Benjamin H Bratton
The Guardian, U.K., April 5 -- Benjamin H Bratton is the director of the Center for Design and Geopolitics, Calit2 at UC San Diego and a member of the university's visual arts faculty. More

High Doses of Vitamin D Reduce Breast Cancers in Mice
The Globe and Mail, Canada, April 5 -- A team of university researchers in the United States has been able to significantly reduce the incidence of breast cancer in mice by giving them high doses of vitamin D. (Quotes Cedric Garland, a professor at the Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego) More

Hookah Smoking Among Teens on Rise
KABC7, Los Angeles -- Tobacco smoking via hookahs may be on the rise among San Diego teenagers, a new survey suggests. UC San Diego researchers talked to students at three high schools in that city. About 26 percent said they have tried a hookah, 11 percent having used it in the last month. More

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9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes of Biz Data Sent in 2008
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 6 -- The world's computer servers distributed 9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of business-related data in 2008 -- enough information to create a stack of books that would reach to Neptune and back, 20 times over, UC San Diego says in a study released today. More

Kyoto Prize Winner Speaks to Large UCSD Crowd
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 6 -- Older mathematicians frequently advised László Lovász to study a field more serious than graph theory when he was a young up-and-comer. But Lovász, now 63, said he enjoyed the novelty of the subject and its potential applications, so he ignored the criticism. Years later, after becoming one of the most influential figures in his field, Lovász has received the prestigious Kyoto Prize in basic sciences. On Tuesday afternoon, he shared some of his knowledge with an attentive audience at UC San Diego as part of the three-day Kyoto Prize Symposium. More

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Surgeon Count Linked to Survival Rates
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 5 -- Led by David C. Chang, director of Outcomes Research in the department of surgery at the UC San Diego Health System, researchers found that the number of available surgeons in an area measurably impacts the survival rate of people involved in serious motor vehicle crashes. The finding may appear self-evident and easy, but improving the situation is not. We asked Chang to explain. More

City Marks 'National Start Walking Day'
10News, April 6 -- Mayor Jerry Sanders opened "National Start Walking Day" Wednesday by telling a crowd of about 100 people how he has lost 76 pounds in the last year by walking San Diego neighborhoods. "It's been a great year," a visibly thinner Sanders said. (Mentions the UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center, which co-sponsored the kick off of National Start Walking Day) More

Gymnast Wrist: Time to Give It a Rest
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 5 -- Gymnast wrist can be defined as chronic pain on the thumb side of the wrist. It is a repetitive-stress injury that causes inflammation at the growth plate. The young gymnast will usually develop this problem either when he or she increases training intensity or more commonly after moving to a higher competitivew level. (Written by Eric W. Edmonds, M.D., is a pediatric and adolescent orthopedic sports medicine specialist at Rady Children's Hospital San Diego and an assistant professor of orthopedics at UC San Diego) More

Remembering Artist Italo Scanga
KPBS, April 6 -- Italo Scanga is often described as an alchemist, an artist who created sculptures that referenced high art despite being made of the most mundane found objects. Scanga died in 2001 in his Pacific Beach studio after an impressive career of international acclaim. With the Oceanside Museum of Art hosting an exhibit of Scanga's sculpture, we'll talk about the artist's work and passion for objects with Ernest Silva, a professor in the visual arts department at UC San Diego. More

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