A Sampling of Clips for May 19, 2010

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Scientists Say New Visit to Mars Overdue
CBS News, May 18  -- If NASA's exploration of Mars were summed up in a bumper sticker, it would read: "Follow the water." Well, some water was found - ice was discovered by the Phoenix lander in 2008. Now what? (Quotes marine chemist Jeffrey Bada at Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

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National Geographic Names New Emerging Explorers
National Geographic, May 18 -- National Geographic has named 14 trailblazers from around the world--including an electrical engineer, a musician, a bioarchaeologist, a mobile technology innovator, and a herpetologist--to its 2010 Emerging Explorers class. They include UC San Diego research scientist and engineer Albert Yu-Min Lin. More

Mexico's Calderón Needs to Listen, Not Just Lecture U.S.
TIME Magazine, Opinion, May 19 -- While we were fighting off an Iraqi insurgency, Mexico's drug war morphed into a ghastly narcoinsurgency that threatens to spill over the Rio Grande. While we were dropping the ball on immigration reform, Mexico kept pouring undocumented workers into the U.S. So perhaps we deserve some of the lecturing we're bound to get from President Felipe Calderón when he climbs Capitol Hill on Wednesday. (Quotes Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, director of the U.S.-Mexico Studies Center at the UC San Diego) More

'Dancing With the Stars' Results: Ocho and Out
Los Angeles Times, May 18 -- The college dance championship on Dancing With the Stars continued, and it was announced that Purdue earned more votes than UC San Diego and ended up in the finals, despite getting lower scores than the Tritons last week (never underestimate the voting power of the Boilermakers). More

MCASD Adds New Works to Collection at 2010 Collectors' Dinner
Art Daily, May 19 - At the 2010 Collectors’ Selection Dinner on Wednesday, May 12, MCASD’s International Collectors and Contemporary Collectors voted to purchase three new works for the Museum's collection: Sarah Oppenheimer’s architectural intervention, P-41 (2009); Douglas Wheeler’s acrylic and neon tubing painting, Untitled (1965); and Kim MacConnel’s enamel on wood painting, E1, E2, and E3 (2010). MacConnel is on the UC San Diego faculty. More

An Interview With Charles Curtis
Paris Transatlantic, May 2010 -- Many composers search their entire lifetime hoping to find a performer as resolutely dedicated, adventurous and talented as Charles Curtis. Perhaps the San Diego-based cellist is best known as a longtime collaborator of minimalist icon La Monte Young – their intense working relationship spans 24 years – yet Curtis is also renowned for his defining performances of works by Eliane Radigue, Morton Feldman, Terry Jennings, Alison Knowles, Alvin Lucier and many others. Curtis is on the UC San Diego faculty. More

Film Shows Ocean Woes
La Jolla Light, May 18 -- The Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego will present a free public screening of "A Sea Change," the first documentary about ocean acidification, a potentially devastating threat to ocean life, at 5:30 p.m. May 20 at the Scripps Seaside Forum. More

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