A Sampling of Clips for Sept. 22, 2010

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Expanded Tobacco Sales Ban OK'd in San Francisco
CBS News, Sept. 21 -- San Francisco supervisors gave preliminary approval Tuesday to expanding a law that restricts drug stores from selling tobacco products to also apply to grocery stores and big box wholesale clubs with pharmacies. (Mentions a 2007 state health report prepared by professors at UC San Diego) More

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Analysis: No Scope for More Obama Stimulus Post November
The New York Times, Sept. 21 - Expected Republican gains in November elections will limit President Barack Obama's room for maneuver on economic policy and focus the United States on hard choices needed to confront its yawning budget deficit. (Quotes James Hamilton, an economics professor at UC San Diego) More

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Alzheimer's Brain Tangles Offer Clue to Decline
CBS News, Sept. 21 -- That sticky gunk coating Alzheimer's patients' brains gets all the notoriety, but another culprit is gaining renewed attention: Protein tangles that clog brain cells and just might determine how fast patients go downhill. (Quotes Dr. Paul Aisen of UC San Diego) More

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University of California Enters Stem Cell Legal Fray
Nature, Sept. 21 -- The University of California (UC) has requested permission from a US court to participate in a lawsuit that challenges the government's right to fund research using human embryonic stem cells. In a motion filed yesterday (PDF here) to the Washington DC Court of Appeals, lawyers for the state’s university system argue that UC has a major stake in the case. The UC system is the single largest recipient of funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the interests of grantees are currently not represented, the motion states. (Mentions UC San Diego) More

Huntington's Director of Research to Retire in 2011
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 21 -- Robert C. Ritchie, who has served for close to 19 years as the director of research at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, will retire from his position in June 2011. Ritchie came to the Huntington in 1992 after serving as a history professor and associate chancellor at UC San Diego. More

Universities Cover Delayed Student Grants
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 21 -- The University of California has borrowed $189 million to front financial aid to low-income students this fall. California State University campuses are digging into their diminished reserves to do the same thing for their recipients of the state’s need-based Cal Grants, which have been held up by the Legislature’s budget stalemate. The grants are being covered for more than 17,000 students at UC San Diego, San Diego State University and California State University San Marcos. More

Getting Beyond the Head Lice ‘Ick Factor’
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 21 -- In its new, updated guidelines for treating lice infestations, the AAP again urges schools to abandon strict policies of requiring children to be free of nits (louse egg casings) before they can return to school. The bugs, they say, aren’t reason enough to miss class. We asked Dr. Howard Taras, a professor of pediatrics at UC San Diego and community alliance director for UCSD’s Clinical & Translational Research Institute, to examine the issue. More

Prop. 25 Aims for Majority Rule
KPBS, Sept. 22 -- The real work of Democratic government gets done in the middle of the political spectrum. The politicians who appeal to the suburban soccer moms can build party majorities and pass legislation. But in California, things are a little different. We're one of only three states in the nation that require their legislatures to pass a budget by a two-thirds vote. Thad Kousser is a political scientist at UC San Diego who says the current situation means most voters are not getting what they want. More

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