A Sampling of Clips for March 15, 2010

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Study: Camel No. 9 Cigarette Ads Appeal to Teen Girls
USA Today, March 15 -- A recent marketing campaign for Camel cigarettes appears to have attracted the interest of teen girls, a study shows. Being able to remember a tobacco ad shows that kids are taking an interest in cigarettes, says co-author John Pierce of the Moores Cancer Center at UCSD. More

National Book Critics Circle Award Winners Announced
The New York Times, March 11 -- The British author Hilary Mantel was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction at the New School’s Tishman auditorium on Thursday night for “Wolf Hall,” a historical novel about the court of Henry VIII and centered on the king’s adviser, Thomas Cromwell. The poetry prize went to Rae Armantrout for “Versed.” Armantrout is on the UCSD faculty. More

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Spring Forward Messes With More than Time
ABC News, March 12 -- It's that time of year again, when reminders about changing our clocks pop up everywhere as the United States springs forward into daylight saving time. (Quotes Dr. Sonia Ancoli-Israel of the UCSD School of Medicine) More

Obama Focuses on 3 to Fill Fed Board
The New York Times, March 12 -- Moving quickly to put its mark on the Federal Reserve, the White House on Friday identified two economists and a lawyer as its candidates to fill three seats on the central bank’s board of governors. (Quotes UCSD economist Valerie Ramey) More

UCSD Announces Minority Enrollment Push
10News, March 12-- To increase minority enrollment at UCSD, where racial tensions have been on the rise, university officials Friday announced new efforts to get minorities who have been admitted to the school to enroll. More

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Lunar Mirror Mystery Solved
Discovery Channel, March 14 -- Scientists believe lunar dust heated by the sun is degrading the performance of the Apollo reflector arrays and could explain a strange phenomena that occurs during a full moon. In a paper published on the electronic preprint Web site arXiv and accepted for publication in the journal Icarus, scientists led by Tom Murphy from UCSD say material settling on the reflectors is reducing their efficiency. More

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Coburn Said Yes: The Oklahoma City Holdout
Huffington Post, Opinion, March 12 -- On Tuesday afternoon, a 262-hour demonstration in front of Senator Tom Coburn's office in Oklahoma City officially ended. It ended because Senator Tom Coburn agreed to release his hold on the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act. (Written by Laren Poole, founder of Invisible Children, who attended UCSD) More

Renowned American Poet to Perform in Kyoto
Japan Times, March 11 -- Internationally renowned American poet and translator Jerome Rothenberg will perform a representative selection of poems from his earlier and later works, including poems set in Japan from his book titled "A Paradise of Poets." Rothenberg is on the UCSD faculty. More

The Digital Disconnect: In Relentless
Pursuit of 'Connecting,' We Miss Out on Each Other
Seattle Times, March 13 -- A recent Harris Interactive poll found that the average Internet user spends 13 hours online each week, e-mailing not included. A decade ago, the number was almost half that. According to a report from UCSD, the average American consumes a brain-exploding 34 gigabytes of content and either sees or hears 100,000 words each day, from the Web to TV to text messages. More

Science Class Puts Bodies in Motion
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 13 -- This week, science students at Otay Ranch High School participated in the American Physiological Society’s “PhUn Week” — learning combined with a chance to get out of the classroom and do something different. Otay Ranch had the only PhUn Week program in California this year, according to the site. The local program was put on in partnership with UCSD’s muscle physiology lab. More

UCSD Tabloid Koala Won’t Lose Funding
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 13 -- An effort to strip The Koala, UCSD’s notorious tabloid, of student funding has failed. More

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3-D Movies are Helping Screen Viewers' Eye Problems
CBS News 8, March 12 -- 3-D movies are all the rage now, but if you're feeling dizzy or get headaches while watching these 3-D flicks, you may have an undiagnosed vision problem. (Quotes Dr. David Granet, director of pediatric ophthalmology at the UCSD School of Medicine) More

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