A Sampling of Clips for Dec. 10, 2010

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AIDS: The Lazarus Effect
Voice of America, Dec. 9 -- Researchers call it the Lazarus effect – the dramatic beneficial changes that antiretroviral drugs – ARVs - can bring to HIV/AIDS patients and their families.  The drugs are changing lives. Researchers say that not only do AIDS drugs restore the health of those who are very ill, but their families respond as well. UC San Diego Associate Professor Joshua Graff-Zivin is co-author of the study.
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Blue Whale's Gigantic Mouthful Measured
BBC News, Dec. 9 -- A blue whale's mouth cavity is so vast and stretchy that it can engulf a volume of water equivalent to its own body mass, according to a study led by Jeremy Goldbogen of UC San Diego.
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Markets Defy Fed's Bond-Buying Push
The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 9 -- The Federal Reserve's decision to spur the economy with a $600 billion round of bond buying was among the most controversial in its history. (Quotes UC San Diego economist James Hamilton)
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Health Buzz: No Safe Level of Tobacco
U.S. News & World Report, Dec. 9 -- Think one whiff of tobacco smoke is harmless? That brief exposure is all it takes to cause immediate lung and DNA damage, U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin said Thursday in a new report on tobacco—the first of its kind in four years. (Mentions research by UC San Diego)
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United States Artists Announces $2.5 Million in Awards to 50 Winners
Los Angeles Times, Dec. 7 – Fifty artists -- including four from Southern California --  were announced Tuesday as this year’s USA fellows. The $2.5 million in combined annual fellowships, first awarded in 2006, dwarfs all of the nation’s annual arts prizes except the MacArthur Fellowship, which currently antes up nearly $4 million a year for artists. Teddy Cruz, who is on the UC San Diego faculty, is one of the recipients.
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Dim Prospects for Energy R&D Funding
MIT Tech Review, Dec. 10 -- As Congress rushes to finish its business before the year's end, it is likely to pass one of two spending bills to keep the government running in 2011. Either way, funding for energy R&D is expected to be stagnant next year and decrease in 2012. (Quotes David Victor, a professor at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UC San Diego)
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Manny Farber’s Massive, Color-coded Painting is Complex Self-portrait
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 5 -- Manny Farber organized this complex, unfurling painting in episodic sections, much like one would direct scenes in a film. In “Story of the Eye,” he labeled the color-coded panels water, fire, hell, air and earth, and scribbled notes on scraps of paper. The late Farber was on the UC San Diego faculty.
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Events: Tweed Rides, Holiday Classes, and Ice Skating
KPBS, Dec. 9 -- It's a very festive weekend preview we have for you - holiday gift making, shopping, cooking, and general merry making. Guests for the podcast include Marty Wollesen is the artistic director of ArtPower! at UC San Diego.
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MedNetworks Taps UCSD’s James Fowler
and Other Experts for New Scientific Board
Xconomy, Dec. 9 -- MedNetworks has significantly enhanced its brain trust as it sets out to conquer the emerging field of social networks analytics in healthcare. The Newton, MA-based startup has announced the creation of a scientific advisory board, which is headlined by the authors of the highly acclaimed book on social networks, “Connected,” Harvard researcher and physician Nicholas Christakis and UC San Diego political scientist James Fowler.
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Innovation Challenge to Help Develop Wireless Health Tools for Soldiers
The San Diego Daily Transcript, Dec. 9 --  The U.S Army, along with Qualcomm and UC San Diego has sponsored a regional initiative that will provide funding and business mentoring to researchers from selected Southern California institutes that are developing novel technologies in wireless health care.
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UCSD Gets Gift From Keck Foundation
La Jolla Light, Dec. 9 -- UC San Diego has received a $1 million gift from the W.M. Keck Foundation. The Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind on campus, which integrates knowledge from all disciplines that deal with the nature of the brain and mind, will administer the gift to help fund cutting-edge neural systems research.
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