A Sampling of Clips for Dec. 6, 2010

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Web Browser Flaw Secretly Bares All
MSNBC, Dec. 5 -- Dozens of websites have been secretly harvesting lists of places that their users previously visited online, everything from news articles to bank sites to pornography, a team of computer scientists at UC San Diego found. More

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Lovely's Haiti: Small Loans, Big Trouble
The Toronto Star, Dec. 5 -- In Haiti there are hundreds of thousands of women, stuck in place, today’s profit swallowed whole. Tomorrow mimics yesterday, scratching for the money to buy the goods, and so it goes, a mean cycle unbroken. And yet. Perhaps with a little credit, a financial leg up, Rosita could be one who breaks the pattern. (Quotes Craig McIntosh, an associate professor of economics at UC San Diego) More

On Tax Cuts, Liberals Wonder if Obama’s Really Got Their Back
The Miami Herald, Dec. 3 -- Democrats in Congress are largely united on the major issues before them this month: extending tax cuts for the middle class and the poor, but not the rich, before they expire Dec. 31, and giving more help to the long-term unemployed. Yet they're unable to enact either provision because of united Republican opposition in the Senate. (Quotes Gary Jacobson, a professor of political science at UC San Diego and a leading scholar of Congress) More

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Icequake Swarms Portend Some Avalanches
U.S. News & World Report, Dec. 6 -- Unless you’re eating breakfast, hearing snap, crackle, and pop may be an early warning sign of an impending avalanche. Geologists listening in on “icequakes” that rumble through glaciers have developed a model that can predict a collapse up to 15 days before it happens, the team reports in a study posted on arXiv.org. (Quotes glaciologist Fabian Walter of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

New Observations of Exploding Stars Reveal Pauses, Flickers and Flares
Space Daily, Dec. 6 -- Astronomers at UC San Diego have traced the waxing and waning light of exploding stars more closely than ever before and seen patterns that aren't yet accounted for in our current understanding of how these eruptions occur. More

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Climate Groups Retool Argument for Global Warming
KPCC, Los Angeles, Calif., Dec. 5 -- The number of Americans who believe global warming is a scientific fact has dropped. Environmental groups and climate scientists who say the evidence for warming is clear are scratching their heads over this reversal and scrambling to find a new strategy. (Quotes UC San Diego climate scientist Richard Somerville) More

Tritons Come Up Empty in Soccer Final
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 4 -- The UC San Diego women’s soccer team fell short in its effort to win its first Division II national title in nine years on Saturday. The Tritons couldn’t contain defending champion Grand Valley State’s offense as the Lakers won 4-0 in cold, snowy conditions at Bellarmine University in Louisville. More

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UCSD Scientists Warn Of Ocean Acidification in Cancún
KPBS, Dec. 3 -- UC San Diego researchers say action is needed now to keep carbon dioxide from making the world's oceans more acidic. The scientists are highlighting the problem at a climate summit in Cancún, Mexico. More

UCSD Composer Rand Steiger
Embraces Technology and Experimentation in His Music
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 5 -- Given composer Rand Steiger’s indelible associations with Southern California, it’s easy to forget he’s from the East Coast. “I grew up in New York, where you were supposed to choose sides,” said Steiger, who attended CalArts, had a close association with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and since 1987 has been on the composition faculty at UC San Diego. More

Musical Adventures With the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 6 -- San Diego’s other symphony orchestra, the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus, can’t claim a 100 year history or an ensemble of professional musicians. It started as a group of amateurs in 1954, and continued as amateurs and students when Thomas Nee took it under the wing of UC San Diego in the mid-60s. More

A Maverick Leaves San Diego City Hall
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 4 -- Donna Frye came to be known as the "surfer chick" but that label never really fit, and not just because it's been years since the San Diego city councilwoman and almost-mayor got up on a board. She made more waves than she ever rode. (Quotes UC San Diego political scientist Steve Erie) More

Beach Activist Pens History of Region's 'Eco Wars'
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 6 -- Few conservationists along San Diego County’s coastline cast a shadow longer than Serge Dedina, who grew up in Imperial Beach and runs the advocacy group Wildcoast out of his hometown. (Mentions the Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

Podcast: How Sounds Stir Christmas Memories
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 5 -- Listen to an entertaining (and, hopefully, insightful) discussion we recently had with UC San Diego sound effects expert Scott Paulson. More

UC Academic Student Employees Vote to Ratify New Contract
Santa Cruz Sentinel, Dec. 4 -- Despite rank-and-file membership organizing a "Vote No" campaign that gained significant traction on a few campuses, the University of California's academic student employees approved a new contract with UC this week by a 25 percent margin. (Mentions UC San Diego) More

Most Admired Companies in San Diego
San Diego Metropolitan, Dec. 3 – UC San Diego is highlighted on this year’s list of most admired companies. Celebrating its 50th anniversary, UCSD is one of the top higher education and research universities in the nation, renowned for its positive impact on the local region, nation and world. More

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