A Sampling of Clips for Sept. 10, 2010

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Three San Diego County Schools Earn National Honor
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 9, 2010 -- Three San Diego County schools have earned national honors for their academic performances. The School of Digital Media and Design at San Diego's Kearny High School; The Preuss School UC San Diego, a charter school for disadvantaged students; and Otay Elementary School in Chula Vista have been named National Blue Ribbon Schools by the U.S. Department of Education. More

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Obesity Worsens Brain Damage of Heavy Drinking
BusinessWeek, Sept. 10  -- Obesity caused by heavy drinking can add to brain damage caused by drinking itself, says a new study. (Quotes Susan F. Tapert, a professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego, and director of substance abuse/mental illness in the VA San Diego Healthcare System) More

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Feds Pay Doctors $161M to Design Drugs Just for You
AOL News, Sept. 9 -- The use of genomic sequencing to create personalized medical prescriptions, a process that's already making rapid strides, got a financial boost this week. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will invest $161.3 million over five years in its Pharmacogenetics Research Network (PGRN). (Quotes Dr. John Kelsoe of UC San Diego) More

NSF: Time for an Internet Do-over
PC World Magazine, Sept. 9 -- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has doled out grants worth up to $US32 million in total to a pack of universities dedicated to rethinking everything about the Internet from its core routing system to its security architecture and addressing the emergence of cloud computing and an increasingly mobile society. (Quotes KC Claffy, who directs the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego) More

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The Arts and Design Community Looks at the Waterfront
Voice of San Diego, Sept. 9 -- Last Saturday I attended the inaugural "Arts & the City" symposium held at the Bayfront Hilton. The event included an international art gallery sale with art pieces from around the world, and an all day set of panel discussions that touched on everything from energizing the local arts community, UC San Diego's Stuart Collection, case histories of how the creation of local arts districts has revitalized decayed areas of other cities around the country, presentations on how other cities around the country are supporting the growth of their own arts communities, ways to take back the streets for public events and discussions of other great waterfronts and how ours could be activated and improved. More

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