A Sampling of Clips for April 16, 2010

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Protein May Help Control Weight
BusinessWeek, April 15 -- Even on a high-fat diet, mice that lack a protein involved in the response to low levels of oxygen stay lean and healthy, says a new study. The protein, called FIH, could offer a new target for drugs to help control weight, according to UC San Diego researchers. More

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Health Checkup: Women and Health
TIME Magazine, April 15 -- Women make the primary health care decisions in two-thirds of American households. They account for 80 cents out of every dollar spent in drugstores and are likelier than men to choose the family's health insurance. "Women are the main brokers of health care in the United States," says Dr. William Norcross, a family physician and faculty member at the UC San Diego School of Medicine. "This has long been the case and is probably true elsewhere in the world too." More

University of California System Assembles First Waiting Lists
The New York Times, April 15 -- The University of California system, which said in the midst of fiscal belt-tightening in January that it planned to compile its first waiting lists, announced on Wednesday that it had placed more than 10,000 applicants on at least one such list. The lists, long used at selective private colleges, are being employed by several U.C. campuses to insure that enrollment targets are not exceeded. (Mentions UC San Diego) More

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UCSD Announces Minority Admissions Increase
10News, April 15 -- UC San Diego announced Thursday it has increased the number of minority students admitted for the fall quarter. To many students and school officials, it is being called a sign of progress after a series of events sparked racial tension on campus nearly two months ago. More

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Iraq-Iran Collaboration Makes Music, Not War
Pittsburg Post-Gazette, April 15 -- Of all the benefits America could have obtained from fighting a war in Iraq -- oil, democracy, regional stability -- the last thing expected was a new style of jazz. Yet that's what Iraqi-American trumpeter Amir El-Saffar devised with his stunning 2008 debut "Two Rivers." (Mentions Mark Dresser, who is on the UC San Diego faculty) More

UCSD Graduate Schools Ranked in Top 20 by U.S. News
San Diego Daily Transcript, April 15 – The UC San Diego School of Medicine, Jacobs School of Engineering and graduate programs in the sciences are ranked in the top 20 in their respective categories by U.S. News & World Report.More

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Sisters Use Formula to Find Perfect Fit
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 15 -- Fashion designers Ruth and Sara Levy spent years searching for the secret to looking good. Then they heard about something called the golden ratio, a mathematical formula for beauty that many believe Leonardo da Vinci used in his paintings. Thus began a project to crack what they call “the fashion code." (Quotes Norman Bryson, an art history professor at UC San Diego) More

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