A Sampling of Clips for March 16, 2010

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Cigarette Ad May Have Targeted Teen Girls
WebMD, March 15 -- A Camel cigarette ad may have targeted teenage girls, an antismoking group claims.  In a national survey of teens led by a UCSD researcher and conducted soon after ads for the R.J. Reynolds brand Camel No. 9 appeared in leading women's magazines, 44% of the girls could name a favorite brand, based on advertising. Their average age was 15. More

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Kingdom of the Blue Whale
National Geographic, March 15 – Researchers, including Erin Oleson, a former graduate student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD, are trying to better understand the lives of blue whales. More (Video)

This App Misses the Point
Los Angeles  Times, Opinion, March 15 - Almost 6,000 migrants have died in the Arizona desert since the mid-1990s, when border enforcement in California was tightened and migration routes shifted east into barren, deadly territory. Today, migrants are 17 times more likely to die while crossing the border than they were in 1998. Despite the difficulty of making a successful crossing, people take the "Devil's Path" because the mathematics of opportunity have not changed significantly: An immigrant with a job in the United States can earn in one hour what would be a full day's wages in Mexico. (Mentions UCSD) More

Let the Irvine 11 Speak
The Washington Post, Opinion, March 15 -- Earlier this month, students at the University of California at Irvine and Berkeley passed a resolution in support of 11 UC Irvine students who interrupted Israeli Ambassador Oren's speech on February 8. Similar resolutions were passed at UCLA, UCSD and UC Davis. Despite the support, the Irvine students still face expulsion and even misdemeanor charges. More

Clouds Hold Clues for Power
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 15 -- UCSD has received a grant to battle one of the biggest enemies of solar-power generation. Clouds. Researchers at the university are working on finding better ways to predict when the sun will hide behind a cloud and when it will emerge. More

"Versed" Wins the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 15 -- Last year, Seth Lerer, the Dean of Humanities at UCSD, won the award for criticism from the National Book Critics Circle. This year, Rae Aramantrout, a longtime professor on its faculty, has garnered the prize for poetry for her book "Versed." More

Police: Another Swastika Found on UC Davis Campus
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 15 -- A swastika found carved into a dormitory bulletin board at the University of California, Davis over the weekend has campus police investigating another bias-related incident. (Mentions UCSD) More

A Local Hoarder Tries to Change His Ways
KPBS, March 15 -- Psychologists use the word "hoarder" to describe people who compulsively collect stuff they are unable to throw away. Hoarders become community problems when the piles of junk collect outside their homes, or when their homes become unsanitary and attract vermin. (Quotes UCSD psychiatrist Sanjaya Saxena) More

Going on a Carbon Diet Without a Scale
Voice of San Diego, March 12 -- Ray Weiss, a geochemist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, was at the climate talks in Copenhagen last December, and he had a big interview on the BBC approaching. More

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