A Sampling of Clips for Oct. 11, 2010

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Report: Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn Has Cancer
MSNBC, Oct. 10 -- Hall of Fame outfielder Tony Gwynn said he has cancer in a salivary gland. He told the San Diego Union-Tribune that the cancer was discovered last month and he faces seven to eight weeks of treatment — radiation five times a week and chemotherapy once a week. (Quotes Dr. Kevin Brumund, a neck and throat specialist at the UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center) More

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Weight-loss Programs Really Work -- If They're Free
MSNBC, Oct. 10 -- Structured programs that help overweight and obese people eat less and exercise more work, offering a rare bit of success in the battle of the bulge, U.S. researchers said. Two studies, including one by UC San Diego scientists, published online Saturday by the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that people who took part in programs that included both dieting and exercise lost weight. More

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Wider Streets for Internet Traffic
The New York Times, Oct. 9 – Our taste for the Internet is insatiable — traffic is growing so fast that its transmission systems may soon be filled to capacity. But scientists are coping, finding ingenious ways to satisfy our deep bandwidth hunger. (Quotes Stojan Radic, a professor of electrical engineering at UC San Diego) More

The Top 25 Underrated Creative Writing MFA Programs
The Huffington Post, Oct. 8 -- These twenty-five (actually twenty-seven) programs fully fund 70% or more of students, yet receive less attention from applicants than they deserve. UC San Diego’s is a new program, but it's at a highly-regarded public university and it's already developing a reputation for being open to experimental poetry and fiction. More

Astronomers Find Long-lost Lunar Rover
ABC Online, Australia, Oct. 11 -- The long lost lunar rover Lunokhod 1, has been rediscovered by astronomers using laser pulses, thirty-six years after it disappeared. A team led by Associate Professor Tom Murphy at UC San Diego worked out its position to within a few centimetres using data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). More

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Taleb Says Investors Should Sue Nobel Panel for Losses
BusinessWeek, Oct. 8 -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of “The Black Swan,” said investors who lost money in the financial crisis should sue the Swedish Central Bank for awarding the Nobel Prize to economists whose theories he said brought down the global economy. (Mentions Harry Markowitz, a professor of finance at the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego) More

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Slowing Population: Would It Curb Climate Change?
Los Angeles Times, Oct. 11 -- Ever since the Industrial Revolution brought belching smokestacks, greenhouse gases and human population have climbed in lockstep to ever-higher levels. And while scientists warn that humanity must dramatically slash future carbon-dioxide emissions to avert extended droughts, floods, and other climate catastrophes, they have generally avoided a rigorous examination of how slowing population growth would help. Now, an international team of scientists has done the math. (Quotes Richard Somerville, a climate scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego) More

Earthquake Experts See Warning
for California in New Tsunami Study on Risk to Caribbean
Los Angeles Times, Oct. 11 -- Haiti and Jamaica are at greater risk for destructive tsunami than previously believed, according to a new study of tsunami generated during the catastrophic Haiti earthquake in January. (Quotes John Orcutt, geophysics professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego who was not involved in the study) More

Trying Out Indigenous Languages
Los Angeles Times, Oct. At UCLA and other schools, some students are forgoing French, Spanish and Chinese to try indigenous Latin American languages such as Zapotec, Mixtec and Quechua. Some leap in for the adventure. Others want to get closer to their roots. (Mentions UC San Diego) More

Conservative Voters Poised to be Heard
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Wisc., Oct. 10 -- If the polls are any guide, the 2 million or more Wisconsinites who turn out to vote Nov. 2 could be one of the most conservative electorates this state has seen in decades. (Quotes UC San Diego political scientist Gary Jacobson) More

The Budget Wonk with an Eclectic Past
Voice of San Diego, Oct. 11 -- Scott Barnett has staked his campaign for school board on whipping a massive school district into financial shape. His plug is simple: San Diego Unified is badly managed. And he's the one to fix it. (Quotes UC San Diego political scientist Steve Erie) More

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