A Sampling of Clips for May 10, 2011

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A Change in Fortune for the West Coast?
The New York Times, May 9 -- Residents of the West Coast have been locally sheltered from the impact of accelerated sea level rise. But after three decades of this good fortune, sea levels are suddenly forecast to start rising along the eastern Pacific Ocean, according to researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. More

World's Servers Process 9.57ZB of Data a Year
PC World Magazine, May 9 -- Three years ago, the world's 27 million business servers processed 9.57 zettabytes, or 9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of information. Researchers at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, estimate that the total is equivalent to a 5.6-billion-mile-high stack of books stretching from Earth to Neptune and back to Earth, repeated about 20 times. More

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No Such Thing as Safe Smoking
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 9 -- We asked Dr. Aaron Schneir, an associate professor of medicine and medical toxicology at UC San Diego, to further assess the health threat of hookah smoking and carbon monoxide poisoning. More

UCSD Middle East Demonstrations are Peaceful
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 9 -- Justice in Palestine Week, an annual event at UC San Diego that Jewish students consider hateful, got off to a peaceful start Monday. More

Venter Institute Prepping for Construction Next to Allen Field Begins
La Jolla Light, May 9 -- Those of you who’ve seen new construction next to La Jolla’s Allen Field and wondered what it was can wonder no more: It’s work beginning on the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) building project. The new, carbon-neutral laboratory facility at the corner of Torrey Pines Road where it meets La Jolla Village Drive/North Torrey Pines Road on the UC San Diego campus would make it the first laboratory building of its kind in the United States and will house approximately 125 staff and scientists, according to institute officials. More

Solana Beach Resident’s Grounding in the ‘Real World’ Experiences
of the Poor Provided Vital Insights in ‘Superstar’ Career as Economist
La Jolla Light, May 9 -- In the field of international economics, UC San Diego professor Gordon Hanson, son of medical missionary parents, is regarded as a superstar — and one of the most productive and highly cited economists in the United States. Interestingly and significantly, when he was 21, after earning his undergraduate degree, he postponed going to graduate school until he had spent a year working among the poor in Peru and Honduras. More

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